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ISRAEL’S WAR ONTERRORISMA High Price offers a nuanced, definitivehistorical account of Israel’s bold but oftenfailed efforts to fight terrorist groups, fromYasir Arafat’s Fatah to Lebenon’s Hezbollah.Pages 14-15.

A MASTER CLASS INCOUNTERINSURGENCYOne of the world’s leading experts oncounterinsurgency takes us on the ground touncover the face of modern warfare, both thevast War on Terrorism and the numerous smallwars around the globe. Pages 44-45.

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PAYING PAINFORWARDAn illuminating look at revenge,retaliation, and especially redirectedaggression—revealing how it hasevolved, why it occurs, and what wecan do about it. Page 18.

“ON TO WASHINGTON!”John and Charles Lockwood offer a riveting,minute-by-minute account of the Confederatesiege of Washington, twelve tension-filled daysearly in the war when the fate of the Union hungin the balance. Pages 2-3.

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On April 14, 1860, the day Fort Sumter fell to Confederate forces,Washington, D.C. was ripe for invasion. Located 60 miles south of

the Mason-Dixon Line, the nation’s capital was virtually surrounded bythe slave states of Maryland and Virginia. Only a few hundred soldierswere stationed in the city, and a rebel army rumored at 20,000 men layjust across the Potomac River. The south echoed with cries of “On toWashington!” Jefferson Davis boasted that the federal capital would fallby the beginning of May, not two weeks away.

In The Siege of Washington, John and Charles Lockwood offer aheart-pounding, minute-by-minute account of the twelve days when thefate of the Union hung in the balance. The fall of Washington wouldhave been a disaster: it would have crippled the federal government, leftthe remaining Northern states in disarray, and almost certainly triggeredthe secession of Maryland. Indeed, it would likely have ended the fightto preserve the Union before it had begun in earnest.

A riveting narrative of thefirst days of the Civil War,

when the fate ofWashington—and indeed

of the entire Union—dangled by a

slender thread

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On April 15, Lincoln quickly issued an emergency proclamationcalling upon the Northern states to send 75,000 troops to Washington.The North, suddenly galvanized by the attack on Sumter, respondedenthusiastically. Yet one powerful question gripped Washington, andindeed the nation—whose forces would get to the capital first, Northerndefenders or Southern attackers?

Drawing from unseen primary documents, this compelling historyplaces the reader on the scene with immediacy, brilliantly capturing thetense, precarious first days of America’s Civil War.

A P R I L 2 0 1 1American History

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John Lockwood is the National Mall Historian andworks for the National Park Service.

Charles Lockwood is an architectural historian and the author of seven books, including Bricks and Brownstone.

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A fascinating history of quantum theory, modern science’s most successful and bizarre idea, focusing on a series of forty dramatic turning points

THE QUANTUM STORYA History in 40 MomentsJIM BAGGOTT

Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory isquite simply the most successful account of the physical universe

ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the twenty-first centurytechnology that we now take for granted. But at the same time it hascompletely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at itsmost fundamental level. Niels Bohr claimed that anybody who is notshocked by the theory has not understood it. The American physicistRichard Feynman went further: he claimed that nobody understands it.

The Quantum Story begins in 1900, tracing a century of game-changing science. Popular science writer Jim Baggott first shows how,over the space of three decades, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and othersformulated and refined the theory—and opened the floodgates. Indeed,since then, a torrent of ideas has flowed from the world’s leading physi-cists, as they explore and apply the theory’s bizarre implications. To takeus from the story’s beginning to the present day, Baggott organizes hisstory around forty turning-point moments of discovery. Many of theseare inextricably bound up with the characters involved—their rivalriesand their collaborations, their arguments and, not least, their excitementas they sense that they are redefining what reality means. Through themix of story and science, we experience their breathtaking leaps of the-ory and experiment, as they uncover such undreamed of and mind-bog-gling phenomenon as black holes, multiple universes, quantum entan-glement, the Higgs boson, and much more.

Brisk, clear, and compelling, The Quantum Story is science writing atits best. A compelling look at the one-hundred-year history of quantumtheory, it illuminates the idea as it reveals how generations of physicistshave grappled with this monster ever since.

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Jim Baggott is the author of Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History ofthe Atomic Bomb, 1939-1949, A Beginner’s Guide to Reality, and Beyond Measure:Modern Physics, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Quantum Theory, among other books.

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The first major biography of Bismarck in thirty years

BISMARCKA LifeJONATHAN STEINBERG

Otto von Bismarck transformed Europe more completely than any-body in the nineteenth century—except for Napoleon. He uni-

fied—and indeed, created—the country at the center of two world warsthat would transform the world.

This riveting biography illuminates the life of the statesman whounified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthlessabout Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contempo-rary writings, allowing Bismarck’s friends and foes to tell the story. Whatrises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac withthe constitution of an ox, a brutal tyrant who could easily shed tears, aconvert to an extreme form of evangelical Protestantism who secularizedschools and introduced civil divorce. Bismarck may have been in sheerability the most intelligent man to direct a great state in modern times.His brilliance and insight dazzled his contemporaries. But all agreedthere was also something demonic, diabolical, overwhelming, beyondhuman attributes, in Bismarck’s personality. He was a kind of maligngenius who, behind the various postures, concealed an ice-cold con-tempt for his fellow human beings and a drive to control and rule them.As one contemporary noted: “the Bismarck regime was a constant orgyof scorn and abuse of mankind, collectively and individually.”

In this comprehensive and expansive biography—a brilliant study inpower—Jonathan Steinberg brings Bismarck to life, revealing the starkcontrast between the “Iron Chancellor’s” unmatched political skills andhis profoundly flawed human character.

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Jonathan Steinberg is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern EuropeanHistory at the University of Pennsylvania, and Emeritus Fellow, Trinity Hall,Cambridge. His books include Yesterday’s Deterrent: Tirpitz and the Birth of theGerman Battle Fleet and All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941 to 1943.


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A fascinating look at the powerful interactions betweenthe world’s atmosphere and oceans, revealing how theyprofoundly influence life on earth

THE DANCE OF AIR AND SEAHow Oceans, Weather, and Life Link TogetherARNOLD H. TAYLOR

How can tiny plankton in the sea just off Western Europe be affect-ed by changes in the Gulf Stream four thousand miles away, on the

other side of the North Atlantic Ocean? How can a slight rise in the tem-perature of the surface of the Pacific Ocean have a devastating impact onamphibian life in Costa Rica? How can the temperature of the equator-ial Pacific Ocean help predict the yields of maize far away in Zimbabwe?

In The Dance of Air and Sea, oceanographer Arnold Taylor illumi-nates the extraordinarily vast and powerful forces driving the world’secosphere, revealing the astonishing ways that the atmosphere andoceans interact, and showing how ecosystems in water and on landrespond to changes in weather. Ranging through the fields of oceanog-raphy, meteorology, and ecology, Taylor sheds light on the immense vari-ations of the atmosphere which can span a whole ocean, the best knownof which is the El Nino cycle of the equatorial Pacific Ocean, a colossalsee-saw in which atmospheric pressure rising over Australia mirrors a fallthousands of miles away in Tahiti. And as he explores this remarkabledance of sea and air, Taylor conveys the enormous power of theseforces—for instance, the Gulf Stream carries as heat the energy of about20 million power stations—and he tells colorful stories of the many sci-entists working in this field, such as the two researchers who used therecords of an annual gambling pool in Alaska (the Nenana Ice Classic)to track the local effects of global warming.

Packed with engaging anecdotes, this mind-boggling account of theenormous forces at work around the globe also highlights how under-standing these forces will enhance our ability to tackle global warming.

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Arnold H. Taylor has worked for thirty years in oceanographic research atPlymouth Marine Laboratory.

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A fresh translation of a national bestseller—a majorrethinking of the nature of economics and a stunningtour de force of intellectual inquiry

ECONOMICS OF GOOD AND EVILThe Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall StreetTOMAS SEDLACEK

Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have.Named one of the “young guns” and one of the “five hot minds in

economics” by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the NationalEconomic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achievedbestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil.

In Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek radically rethinks his field,challenging our assumptions about the world. Economics is touted as ascience, a value-free mathematical inquiry, he writes, but it’s actually acultural phenomenon, a product of our civilization. It began within phi-losophy—Adam Smith himself not only wrote The Wealth of Nations,but also The Theory of Moral Sentiments—and economics, as Sedlacekshows, is woven out of history, myth, religion, and ethics. “Even themost sophisticated mathematical model,” Sedlacek writes, “is, de facto, astory, a parable, our effort to (rationally) grasp the world around us.”Economics not only describes the world, but establishes normative stan-dards, identifying ideal conditions. Science, he claims, is a system ofbeliefs to which we are committed. To grasp the beliefs underlying eco-nomics, he breaks out of the field’s confines with a tour de force explo-ration of economic thinking, broadly defined, over the millennia. Heranges from the epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament to the emer-gence of Christianity, from Descartes and Adam Smith to the con-sumerism in Fight Club. Throughout, he asks searching meta-economicquestions: What is the meaning and the point of economics? Can we doethically all that we can do technically? Does it pay to be good?

Placing the wisdom of philosophers and poets over strict mathemat-ical models of human behavior, Sedlacek’s groundbreaking work promis-es to change the way we calculate economic value.

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Tomas Sedlacek lectures at Charles University and is a member of the NationalEconomic Council in Prague, where the original version of this book was a nation-al bestseller and was adapted as a popular theater-piece. He worked as an advisor toVaclav Havel, the first Czech president after the fall of communism, and is a regu-lar columnist and popular radio and TV commentator.

Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire—stretchingfrom Greece to the Indian subcontinent—and his death triggered

forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filledwith high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic mar-riages, treachery, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter on battlefieldafter battlefield. And while the men fought on the field, the women,such as Alexander’s mother Olympias, schemed from their palaces and pavilions.

The story of one of the great forgotten wars of history, Dividing theSpoils serves up a fast-paced narrative that captures this turbulent time asit revives the memory of the Successors of Alexander and their great warover his empire. The Successors, Robin Waterfield shows, were no mereplunderers. Indeed, Alexander left things in great disarray at the time ofhis death, with no guaranteed succession, no administration in placesuitable for such a large realm, and huge untamed areas both borderingand within his empire. It was the Successors—battle-tested companionsof Alexander such as Ptolemy, Perdiccas, Seleucus, and Antigonus theOne-Eyed—who consolidated Alexander’s gains. Their competingambitions, however, eventually led to the break-up of the empire. To telltheir story in full, Waterfield draws upon a wide range of historical mate-rials, providing the first account that makes complete sense of this high-ly complex period.

Astonishingly, this period of brutal, cynical warfare was also charac-terized by brilliant cultural achievements, especially in the fields of phi-losophy, literature, and art. A new world emerged from the dust andhaze of battle, and, in addition to chronicling political and militaryevents, Waterfield provides ample discussion of the amazing culturalflowering of the early Hellenistic Age.

A gripping account of oneof the great forgotten wars

of history, revealing howAlexander the Great’s vast

empire was torn asunderin the years after his death


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M A Y 2 0 1 1Classical Studies

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Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven CitiesPAUL CARTLEDGE978-0-19-923338-0, $19.95(02), hardback

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Robin Waterfield is an independent scholar and transla-tor. In addition to translating numerous Greek classics,including works by Plato, Aristotle, Euripides,Xenophon, and Plutarch, he is the author of Why SocratesDied: Dispelling the Myths, Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece,Persia, and the End of the Golden Age, and Athens: AHistory, From Ancient Ideal to Modern City. He lives inthe far south of Greece on a small olive farm.


A bold challenge to conventional wisdom about the onsetof the Civil War, by one of the leading historians of the period

THE DOGS OF WAR1861EMORY M. THOMAS

In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizonwould be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our

nation’s worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of morethan half a million people. But as eminent Civil War historian EmoryM. Thomas points out in this stimulating and provocative book, oncethe dogs of war are unleashed, it is almost impossible to rein them in.

In The Dogs of War, Thomas highlights the delusions that dominat-ed each side’s thinking. Lincoln believed that most Southerners loved theUnion, and would be dragged unwillingly into secession by the planterclass. Jefferson Davis could not quite believe that Northern resolvewould survive the first battle. Once the Yankees witnessed Southerndetermination, he hoped, they would acknowledge Confederate inde-pendence. These two leaders, in turn, reflected widely held myths.Thomas weaves his exploration of these misconceptions into a tense nar-rative of the months leading up to the war, from the “Great SecessionWinter” to a fast-paced account of the Fort Sumter crisis in 1861.

Emory M. Thomas’s books demonstrate a breathtaking range ofmajor Civil War scholarship, from The Confederacy as a RevolutionaryExperience and the landmark The Confederate Nation, to definitivebiographies of Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart. In The Dogs of War, hedraws upon his lifetime of study to offer a new perspective on the out-break of our nation’s most destructive conflict.

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Emory M. Thomas is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Georgia.His books include Robert E. Lee: A Biography, Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B.Stuart, and The Confederate Nation, 1861-1865.

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A bestselling science writer and world renowned chemisttackles the great questions of existence, in a provocativeaddition to the ongoing debate over religion and science

ON BEINGA Scientist’s Exploration of the Great Questions of ExistencePETER ATKINS

Peter Atkins is the shining exception to the rule that scientists makepoor writers. A Fellow at Oxford and a leading chemist, he has won

admiration for his precise, lucid, and yet rigorous explanations of sci-ence. Now he turns to the greatest—and most controversial—questionsof human existence. Can the scientific method tell us anything of valueabout birth, death, the origin of reality—and its end? Are these questionsbest left to faith?

In On Being, Atkins makes a provocative contribution to the greatdebate between religion and science. Atkins makes his position clearfrom the very first sentence: “The scientific method can shed light onevery and any concept, even those that have troubled humans since theearliest stirrings of consciousness,” he writes. He takes a materialistapproach to the great questions of being that have inspired myth andreligion, seeking to “dispel their mystery without diminishing theirgrandeur.” In placing scientific knowledge in such cosmic perspective, hetakes us on an often dizzying tour of existence. For example, he arguesthat “the substrate of existence is nothing at all.” The total electricalcharge of the universe, among other things, must be nothing—zero—hewrites, or else the universe would have blasted itself apart. “Charge wasnot created at the creation: electrical Nothing separated into equal andopposite charges.” He explores breathtaking questions—asking the pur-pose of the universe—with wit and learning, touching on Sanskrit scrip-tures and John Updike along the way.

“If absolutely and unreservedly everything is an aspect of the physi-cal, material world, then I do not see how it can be closed to scientificinvestigation,” Atkins writes. “The scientific method is the only meansof discovering the nature of reality.”

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Peter Atkins is Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford. A leading chemistand writer of widely adopted textbooks, he is the author of Galileo’s Finger and FourLaws That Drive the Universe, among other works.


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A brilliantly insightful, engagingly written analysis ofTruman Capote and his catastrophically self-destructivefinal book, Answered Prayers

TINY TERRORWhy Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered PrayersWILLIAM TODD SCHULTZ

Truman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers ofhis generation, renowned for such books as Other Voices, Other

Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and his masterpiece, the nonfiction novel InCold Blood. What has received comparatively little attention, however, isCapote’s last, unfinished book, Answered Prayers, a merciless skeweringof cafe society and the high-class women Capote called his “swans.”When excerpts appeared he was immediately blacklisted, ruined social-ly, labeled a pariah. Capote recoiled—disgraced, depressed, and all butfriendless.

In Tiny Terror, a new volume in Oxford’s Inner Lives series, WilliamTodd Schultz sheds light on the life and works of Capote and answersthe perplexing mystery—why did Capote write a book that woulddestroy him? Drawing on an arsenal of psychological techniques, Schultzilluminates Capote’s early years in the South—a time that Capote him-self described as a “snake’s nest of No’s”—no parents to speak of, nofriends but books, no hope, no future. Out of this dark childhoodemerged Capote’s prominent dual life-scripts: neurotic Capote, anxious,vulnerable, hypersensitive, expecting to be hurt; and Capote the dis-agreeable destroyer, emotionally bulletproof, nasty, and bent on revenge.Schultz shows how Capote would strike out when he felt hurt or takenfor granted, engaging in caustic feuds with Gore Vidal, TennesseeWilliams, and many other writers. And Schultz reveals how this tenden-cy fed into Answered Prayers, an exceedingly corrosive and thinly dis-guised roman a clef that trashed his high-society friends.

What emerges by the end of this book is a cogent, immenselyinsightful portrait of an artist on the edge, brilliantly but self-destruc-tively biting the jet-set hands that fed him. Anyone interested in theinner life of one of America’s most fascinating literary personalities willfind this book a revelation.

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William Todd Schultz, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Pacific University inPortland, Oregon. Over the past two decades he’s written numerous psychobio-graphical articles and book chapters, on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Diane Arbus, SylviaPlath, Oscar Wilde, Roald Dahl, James Agee, and Jack Kerouac, among others. Heis editor of the Handbook of Psychobiography, published by Oxford University Pressin 2005.

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The true story of how countless Nazi war criminalsescaped their fate at the end of World War II

NAZIS ON THE RUNHow Hitler’s Henchmen Fled JusticeGERALD STEINACHER

After World War II, rumors circulated that a secret organizationnamed “Odessa” had smuggled Nazi war criminals out of Europe, a

rumor further fueled by the wildly popular novel The Odessa File. But“Odessa” was nothing more than a myth. Now, in Nazis on the Run, his-torian Gerald Steinacher provides the true story of how the Nazisescaped their fate.

Steinacher not only reveals how Nazi war criminals escaped from jus-tice at the end of the Second World War, fleeing through the TyroleanAlps to Italian seaports, but he also highlights the key roles played by theRed Cross, the Vatican, and the Secret Services of the major powers. Thebook takes a hard look at the International Committee of the Red Cross,proving that identification papers issued by the Red Cross made it pos-sible for thousands of Nazis, war criminals, and collaborators—includ-ing Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengale—to slip through the hands ofjustice and to find refuge in North and South America, Spain, and theNear East. Steinacher underscores the importance of the South Tyrol asa “ratline” from Germany to Italy and also reveals that many figures inthe Catholic Church—sometimes knowingly, other times unwittingly—were involved in large-scale Nazi smuggling, often driven by the fear ofan imminent communist takeover of Italy. Finally, the book documentshow the Counter Intelligence Corps (the predecessor to the CIA)recruited former SS men to advise U.S. intelligence agencies and smug-gled them out of Soviet-occupied areas of Austria and Eastern Europeinto Italy and on to South America.

Based on extensive research in newly opened archives, Nazis on theRun is the first book to provide a complete picture of this little-knownstory of justice denied.

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Gerald Steinacher is currently a Joseph A. Schumpeter Research Fellow at theCenter for European Studies at Harvard University and Lecturer on ContemporaryHistory at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

In the sixty-plus years of the Jewish state’s existence, Israeli govern-ments have exhausted almost every option in defending their country

against terror attacks. Israel has survived and even thrived—but both itscitizens and its Arab neighbors have paid dearly.

In A High Price, Daniel Byman breaks down the dual myths of Israeliomnipotence and—conversely—ineptitude in fighting terror, offeringinstead a nuanced, definitive historical account of the state’s bold butoften failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. The product of painstakingresearch and countless interviews, the book chronicles different periodsof Israeli counterterrorism. Beginning with the violent border disputesthat emerged after Israel’s founding in 1948, Byman charts the rise ofYasir Arafat’s Fatah and leftist groups such as the Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine—organizations that ushered in the era of inter-national terrorism epitomized by the 1972 hostage-taking at the MunichOlympics. Byman follows how Israel fought these groups and new ones,such as Hamas, in the decades that follow, with particular attention tothe grinding and painful struggle during the second intifada. Israel’sdebacles in Lebanon against groups like the Lebanese Hezbollah are alsoexamined in-depth, as is the country’s problematic response to Jewishterrorist groups that have struck at Arabs and Israelis seeking peace.

A riveting, authoritativelook at Israel’s history of

counterterrorism—a sometimes brilliant, yetoften flawed record that

holds valuable lessons forall countries


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In surveying Israel’s response to terror, the author points to thecoups of shadowy Israeli intelligence services, the much-emulated useof defensive measures such as sky marshals on airplanes, and the role ofcontroversial techniques such as targeted killings and the security bar-rier that separates Israel from Palestinian areas. Equally instructive arethe shortcomings that have undermined Israel’s counterterrorism goals,including a disregard for long-term planning and a failure to recognizethe long-term political repercussions of counterterrorism tactics.

Israel is often a laboratory: new terrorist techniques are often usedagainst it first, and Israel in turn develops innovative countermeasuresthat other states copy. Ultimately, A High Price expertly explains howIsrael’s successes and failures can serve to inform all countries fightingterrorism today.

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Daniel Byman is Professor in the School of ForeignService at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow atthe Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the BrookingsInstitution. He has served on the 9/11 Commission staffand as an analyst with the U.S. government.


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Two biblical scholars look at what the Bible actually saysabout such heated issues as gay rights, abortion, and capital punishment

THE BIBLE NOWRICHARD ELLIOTT FRIEDMAN and SHAWNA DOLANSKY

For millennia, people have used the Bible as a touchstone on impor-tant social and political questions, and rightly so. But many use the

Bible simply as a weapon to wield against opponents in a variety ofdebates—without knowing what the Bible actually says about the issuein question.

In The Bible Now, two respected biblical scholars, Richard ElliottFriedman and Shawna Dolansky, tell us carefully what the Hebrew Biblesays or does not say about a wide range of issues—including homosexu-ality, abortion, women’s status, capital punishment, and the environ-ment. In fascinating passages that shed new light on some of today’smost passionate disputes, the authors reveal how the Bible is frequentlymisunderstood, misquoted, mistranslated, and misused. For instance,those who quote the Bible in condemning homosexuality often cite thestory of Sodom, and those who favor homosexuality point to David’slament over the death of Jonathan. But as the authors show, neither pas-sage is clearly about homosexuality, and these texts do not offer solidfooting on which to make an argument. Readers learn that femalehomosexuality is not prohibited—only male homosexuality. And on thesubject of abortion, the Bible is practically silent, with one extraordinaryexception.

The Bible has inspired people to do great good but has also beenused by people to do great harm, so it is vitally important for us to payattention to it—and to get it right. The Bible Now shows us how wecan—and cannot—use this ancient source of wisdom to address ourmost current and pressing issues.

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Richard Elliott Friedman is the Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the Universityof Georgia and Katzin Professor of Jewish Civilization Emeritus of the Universityof California, San Diego. A nationally recognized biblical scholar, Friedman is theauthor of the bestselling Who Wrote the Bible? as well as The Disappearance of God,The Hidden Book in the Bible, Commentary on the Torah, The Bible with SourcesRevealed, and The Exile and Biblical Narrative.Shawna Dolansky is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at NortheasternUniversity. She is the author of Now You See It, Now You Don’t: The RelationshipBetween Magic and Religion in the Hebrew Bible and the editor of Sacred History,Sacred Literature.

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An inspiring account of New Orleans musicians workingto revive their city in the wake of Katrina

NEW ATLANTISMusicians Battle for the Survival of New OrleansJOHN SWENSON

At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds andinspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural

boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That’s the central question posedin New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson’s beautifully detailed account ofthe musical artists working to save America’s most colorful and troubledmetropolis: New Orleans.

The city has been threatened with extinction many times during itsthree-hundred-plus-year history by fire, pestilence, crime, flood, and oilspills. Working for little money and in spite of having lost their ownhomes and possessions to Katrina, New Orleans’s most gifted musi-cians—including such figures as Dr. John, the Neville Brothers,“Trombone Shorty,” and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux—are fighting backagainst a tidal wave of problems: the depletion of the wetlands south ofthe city (which are disappearing at the rate of one acre every hour), theviolence that has made New Orleans the murder capitol of the U.S., thewaning tourism industry, and above all the continuing calamity in thewake of Hurricane Katrina (or, as it is known in New Orleans, the“Federal Flood”). Indeed, most of the neighborhoods that nurtured theindigenous music of New Orleans were destroyed in the flood, and manyof the elder statesmen have died or been incapacitated since then, but themusicians profiled here have stepped up to fill their roles. New Atlantisis their story.

Packed with indelible portraits of individual artists, informed bySwenson’s encyclopedic knowledge of the city’s unique and varied musicscene—which includes jazz, R&B, brass band, rock, and hip hop—NewAtlantis is a stirring chronicle of the valiant efforts to preserve the culturethat gives New Orleans its grace and magic.

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John Swenson has been writing about popular music since 1967. He edited theWeb site jazze.com for Knit Media and has worked as an editor at Crawdaddy,Rolling Stone, Circus, Saturday Review, Rock World, and OffBeat magazine, whilepublishing articles in virtually every American popular-music magazine of note.Among his previous books are biographies of Bill Haley, John Lennon, Simon andGarfunkel, and Stevie Wonder, as well as reference works such as The Rolling StoneJazz Record Guide. In addition, his writing has won two awards from the PressClub of New Orleans—Best Entertainment Feature in 2007 and Best CriticalReview in 2008.


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A fascinating account of one of the great triggers of violent behavior—offloading suffering by passing it on to others

PAYBACKWhy We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take RevengeDAVID P. BARASH and JUDITH EVE LIPTON

From the child taunted by her playmates to the office worker whofeels stifled in his daily routine, people frequently take out their pain

and anger on others, even those who had nothing to do with the origi-nal stress. The bullied child may kick her puppy, the stifled worker yellsat his children: Payback can be directed anywhere, sometimes at inani-mate things, animals, or other people. In Payback, the husband-and wifeteam of evolutionary biologist David Barash and psychiatrist JudithLipton offer an illuminating look at this phenomenon, showing how ithas evolved, why it occurs, and what we can do about it.

Retaliation and revenge are well known to most people. We all knowwhat it is like to want to get even, get justice, or take revenge.What is new in this book is an extended discussion of redirected aggres-sion, which occurs not only in people but other species as well.The authors reveal that it’s not just a matter of yelling at your spouse

“because” your boss yells at you. Indeed, the phenomenon of redirectedaggression—so-called to differentiate it from retaliation and revenge, theother main forms of payback—haunts our criminal courts, our streets,our battlefields, our homes, and our hearts. It lurks behind some of thenastiest and seemingly inexplicable things that otherwise decent peopledo, from road rage to yelling at a crying baby. And it exists across bound-aries of every kind—culture, time, geography, and even species. Indeed,it’s not just a human phenomenon. Passing pain to others can be seen inbirds and horses, fish and primates—in virtually all vertebrates. It turnsout that there is robust neurobiological hardware and software promot-ing redirected aggression, as well as evolutionary underpinnings.

Payback may be natural, the authors conclude, but we are capable ofrising above it, without sacrificing self-esteem and social status. Theyshow how the various human responses to pain and suffering can bemanaged—mindfully, carefully, and humanely.

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David P. Barash, PhD is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington.An evolutionary biologist by training, he has been involved in the development ofsociobiology, and is the author or co-author of 29 books.Judith Eve Lipton, MD is a psychiatrist who has specialized in the biology ofhuman behavior, especially women’s issues.

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An engaging alternative to Mortimer Adler’s classic How to Read a Book argues that whim should guide our reading and delight should be our goal

THE PLEASURES OF READINGIN AN AGE OF DISTRACTIONALAN JACOBS

In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm aboutthe dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading

enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way.In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers,

reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted read-ers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers.Oprah’s Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA surveyreveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs’s inter-actions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, sug-gest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they arereading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretionand discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that read-ing is, first and foremost, good for you—the intellectual equivalent ofeating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers,Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read atwhim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether itbe Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast tothe more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler’s classic How to Reada Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irrev-erent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect ofapproaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book exploreseverything from the invention of silent reading to reading responsively,rereading, and reading on electronic devices.

Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, ThePleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers,whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking torecapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.

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Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. His booksinclude The Narnian, a biography of C.S. Lewis, Original Sin: A Cultural History,and a Theology of Reading. His literary and cultural criticism has appeared in theBoston Globe, The American Scholar, and the Oxford American.


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A wide-ranging account of the notorious massacre inSharpeville, an event that sparked the start of armedresistance to Apartheid

SHARPEVILLEA Massacre and Its ConsequencesTOM LODGE

On March 21, 1960, a line of 150 white policemen fired 1,344rounds into a crowd of several thousand people assembled outside

a police station, protesting against the Apartheid regime’s racist “pass”laws. The gunfire left in its wake sixty-seven dead and one hundred andeighty-six wounded. Most of the people who were killed were shot in theback, hit while running away.

The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, markedthe start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwidecondemnation of South Africa’s Apartheid policies. In Sharpeville, TomLodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred, looking at thesocial and political background to the events of March 1960 as well asthe long-term consequences of the shootings. Lodge offers a grippingaccount of the Massacre itself as well as the wider events that accompa-nied the tragedy, particularly the simultaneous protest in Cape Townwhich helped prolong the political crisis that developed in the wake ofthe shootings. Just as important, he sheds light on the long-term conse-quences of these events. He explores how the Sharpeville events affect-ed the perceptions of black and white political leadership in South Africaas well as South Africa’s relationship with the rest of the world, and hedescribes the development of an international “Anti-Apartheid” move-ment in the wake of the shootings.

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Tom Lodge is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University ofLimerick. He has written extensively on South African politics, including Mandela:A Critical Life.

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A provocative argument—based on vast research, including the militants’ own statements—that Islamistterrorism is a marginal and declining phenomenon

THE MISSING MARTYRSWhy There Are So Few Muslim TerroristsCHARLES KURZMAN

Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billionMuslims in the world—many of whom supposedly hate the West

and ardently desire martyrdom—why don’t we see terrorist attacks everyday? Where are the missing martyrs?

In this startlingly counterintuitive book, a leading authority onIslamic movements demonstrates that terrorist groups are thoroughlymarginal in the Muslim world. Charles Kurzman draws on governmentsources, public opinion surveys, election results, and in-depth interviewswith Muslims in the Middle East and around the world. He finds thatyoung Muslims are indeed angry with what they see as imperialism—and especially at Western support for local dictatorships. But revolu-tionary Islamists have failed to reach them, as can be seen from the ter-rorists’ own websites and publications, which constantly bemoan thedearth of willing recruits.

Kurzman notes that it takes only a small cadre of committed killersto wreak unspeakable havoc. But that very fact underscores his point. Aseasy as terrorism is to commit, few Muslims turn to violence. Out of140,000 murders in the United States since 9/11, Islamist terrorists havekilled at most three dozen people. Of the 150,000 people who die eachday, worldwide, Islamist militants account for fewer than fifty fatali-ties—and only ten per day outside of the hotspots of Afghanistan, Iraq,and Pakistan. The real bulwark against Islamist violence, Kurzman finds,is Muslims themselves, who reject both the goals of the terrorists andtheir bloody means. With each bombing, the terrorists lose supportamong Muslims.

Incisive and authoritative, The Missing Martyrs provides much-need-ed corrective to deep-seated and destructive misconceptions aboutMuslims and the Islamic world. The threat of Islamist terrorism is real,Kurzman shows, but its dimensions are, so far, tightly confined.

J U L Y 2 0 1 1Current Events

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Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill. His books include Democracy Denied and The Unthinkable Revolutionin Iran.






An intoxicatingly informative history of our love—andhate—affair with drinking establishments

AMERICA WALKS INTO A BARA Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies andGrog ShopsCHRISTINE SISMONDO

When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so inNew York’s Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his

defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafittein a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted with his accom-plices to carry out a certain assassination, they gathered in Surratt Tavern.

In America Walks into a Bar, Christine Sismondo recounts the richand fascinating history of an institution often reviled, yet always centralto American life. She traces the tavern from England to New England,showing how even the Puritans valued “a good Beere.” With fast-pacednarration and lively characters, she carries the story through the twenti-eth century and beyond, from repeated struggles over licensing toSunday liquor sales, from the Whiskey Rebellion to the temperancemovement, from attempts to ban “treating” to Prohibition and repeal.As the cockpit of organized crime, politics, and everyday social life, thebar has remained vital—and controversial—down to the present. In2006, when the Hurricane Katrina Emergency Tax Relief Act waspassed, a rider excluded bars from applying for aid or tax breaks on thegrounds that they contributed nothing to the community. Sismondoproves otherwise: the bar has contributed everything to the American story.

In this heady cocktail of agile prose and telling anecdotes, Sismondooffers a resounding toast to taprooms, taverns, saloons, speakeasies, andthe local hangout where everybody knows your name.

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320 pp., 19 b/w illus., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4

978-0-19-973495-5$24.95(02), hardback

Christine Sismondo is a writer and lecturer in Humanities at York University inToronto. She has written numerous books and articles about film, literature, drink-ing, and vice, including Mondo Cocktail, a narrative history of cocktails.

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A new edition of the best single source of quick informa-tion on Islam, written by one of America’s leadingauthorities on the topic

WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TOKNOW ABOUT ISLAMSecond EditionJOHN L. ESPOSITO

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, there has been an over-whelming demand for information about Islam, and recent events—

the war in Iraq, terrorist attacks both failed and successful, debatesthroughout Europe over Islamic dress—have raised new questions in theminds of policymakers and the general public. This newly updated edi-tion of What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam is the best single sourcefor clearly presented, objective information about these new develop-ments, and for answers to basic questions about Islam, Shariah law, glob-al jihad, Islamic reform, and a clash of civilizations.

In this revision and expansion of his highly popular guide, John L.Esposito presents in question-and-answer format the information thatmost people want to know about Islam. He provides succinct, accessible,sensitive, and even-handed answers to questions that range from the gen-eral—What do Muslims believe and why? and Who was Muhammad?—to more specific issues—Is Islam compatible with modernization, capi-talism and democracy? How do Muslims view Judaism and Christianity?Are women second-class citizens in Islam? What is jihad? Does theQuran condone terrorism? What does Islam say about homosexuality,birth control, abortion, and slavery? Organizing the book in brief ques-tion-and-answer segments allows readers either to skip to areas thatinterest them, including many of today’s hot-button issues, or to read thebook straight through as a linked narrative.

Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islam and TheOxford History of Islam, and author of The Future of Islam and manyother acclaimed works, John L. Esposito is one of America’s leadingauthorities on Islam. This brief and readable book remains the first placeto look for up-to-date information on the faith, customs, and politicalbeliefs of the 1.5 billion people who call themselves Muslims.

Praise for the first edition:“An excellent primer on all aspects of Islam. Esposito elegantlyeducates the reader through what the Quran said, howMuslims are influenced by their local cultures, and how theunique politics of Islamic countries affect Muslims’ views.”—Publishers Weekly


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John L. Esposito is University Professor, Professor of Religion and InternationalAffairs, Professor of Islamic Studies, and Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleedbin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Walsh School ofForeign Service, Georgetown University.


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An unflinching investigation into how the US fights itswars and why Americans care so little about the enormous civilian casualties we inflict on our adversaries

THE DEATHS OF OTHERSThe Fate of Civilians in America’s WarsJOHN TIRMAN

Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troopskilled in battle—100,000 dead in World War I; 300,000 in World

War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq;over 1,000 in Afghanistan—and rightly so. But why are we so indiffer-ent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered bythose we fight and those we fight for?

This is the compelling, largely unasked question John Tirmananswers in The Deaths of Others. Between six and seven million peopledied in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq alone, the majority of them civilians.And yet Americans devote little attention to these deaths. Other coun-tries, however, do pay attention, and Tirman argues that if we want tounderstand why there is so much anti-Americanism around the world,the first place to look is how we conduct war. We understandably striveto protect our own troops, but our rules of engagement with the enemyare another matter. From atomic weapons and carpet bombing in WorldWar II to napalm and daisy cutters in Vietnam and beyond, we haveused our weapons intentionally to kill large numbers of civilians and ter-rorize our adversaries into surrender. Americans, however, are mostlyignorant of these facts, believing that American wars are essentially just,necessary, and “good.” Tirman investigates the history of casualtiescaused by American forces in order to explain why America remains sounpopular and why US armed forces operate the way they do.

Trenchant and passionate, The Deaths of Others forces readers to con-sider the tragic consequences of American military action not just forAmericans, but especially for those we fight.


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John Tirman is Principal Research Scientist and Executive Director of the Centerfor International Studies, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His booksinclude Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts and 100 WaysAmerica Is Screwing Up the World.

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The first comprehensive history of George W. Bush’sresponse to 9/11—his War on Terror, conflict inAfghanistan, and war in Iraq—providing a vivid accountof his administration’s policies

BUSH’S WARSTERRY H. ANDERSON

From journalistic accounts like Fiasco and Imperial Life in the EmeraldCity to insider memoirs like Jawbreaker and Three Cups of Tea, the

books about America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could fill a library.But each explores a narrow slice of a whole: two wars launched by a sin-gle president as part of a single foreign policy. Now noted historian TerryH. Anderson examines them together, in a single comprehensive overview.

Shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, PresidentGeorge W. Bush told advisor Karl Rove, “I am here for a reason, and thisis how we’re going to be judged.” Anderson provides this judgment inthis sweeping, authoritative account of Bush’s War on Terror and histwin interventions. He begins with historical surveys of Iraq andAfghanistan—known respectively as “the improbable country” and “thegraveyard of empires,” and he examines U.S. policies toward those andother nations in the Middle East from the 1970s to 2000.

Then Anderson focuses on the Bush Administration, carrying usthrough such events as the terrorist’s attacks of 9/11, the invasion ofAfghanistan and the siege of Tora Bora, the “Axis of Evil” speech, theinvasion of Iraq and capture of Baghdad, and the eruption of insurgencyin Iraq. He ranges from RPGs slamming into Abrams tanks to cabinetmeetings, vividly portraying both soldiers in the field and such policy-makers as Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice. Anderson describes thecounter-insurgency strategy embodied by the “surge” in Iraq, and thesimultaneous revival of the Taliban. He concludes with an assessment ofthe prosecution of the wars in the first years of Barack Obama’s presidency.

Carefully researched and briskly narrated, Bush’s Wars provides thesingle-volume balanced history that we have long awaited.


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Terry H. Anderson is Professor of History at Texas A & M University and authorof The Movement and the Sixties as well as In Pursuit of Fairness.


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An absorbing biography that charts the rise of a legendary Delta bluesman, his surprising rediscovery, andhis lasting influence

PREACHIN’ THE BLUESThe Life and Times of Son HouseDANIEL BEAUMONT

As a young Baptist preacher in the Mississippi Delta, Eddie “Son”House scorned “sinful” music, until one night in 1927, when the

haunting sound of a bottleneck guitar forever changed his life. Housebegan singing and playing guitar and, within a few short years, hebecame a blues legend. In this first full-length biography of Son House,Daniel Beaumont traces a life and career that were marked not only bymusical greatness but also by violence, alcoholism, two marriages, twodecades in obscurity, and, finally, a surprising comeback that brought hisremarkable music to a new generation.

In Beaumont’s absorbing narrative, we follow House’s journey fromrural pulpits to labor farms to smoky juke joints. Shortly after taking upthe blues, House was briefly imprisoned for killing a man, reportedly inself-defense. Following his release in 1930, his friend and fellow musi-cian, Delta blues great Charley Patton led him to record nine classicsongs for Paramount Records, including “Preachin’ the Blues” and “MyBlack Mama.” House soon became the decade’s leading bluesman, animportant influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. In 1941-42, he recorded for Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress, only toquit music and move to Rochester, New York in 1943. Tracked down bythree young blues fans in the mid-sixties, entrenched in the period’s“folk music revival,” House resumed recording, toured America andEurope, and earned more money and recognition than he had evercounted on.

Preachin’ the Blues brims with insights into the social forces and pri-vate demons that drove Son House, and its analysis of the “folk revival”that led to his rediscovery is the most nuanced yet written. More thanjust an account of one artist’s life, the book offers a fresh perspective onhow the blues influenced American culture and spread throughout the world.

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Daniel Beaumont teaches courses on Arabic language and literature and the bluesat the University of Rochester. The author of Slave of Desire: Sex, Love and Death inThe 1001 Nights, he has also contributed to The Encyclopedia of the Blues and toLiving Blues magazine and produced and directed a documentary about bluesmanJoe Beard.

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A vividly written epic that connects 18th-century Londonstreet crime, the American Revolution, the slave trade,and the founding of Australia

A MERCILESS PLACEThe Fate of Britain’s Convicts after the AmericanRevolutionEMMA CHRISTOPHER

Since Robert Hughes’ The Fatal Shore, the fate of British convicts hasburned brightly in the popular imagination. Incredibly, their larger

story is even more dramatic—the saga of forgotten men and womenscattered to the farthest corners of the British empire, driven by thewinds of the American Revolution and the currents of the African slavetrade. In A Merciless Place, Emma Christopher brilliantly captures thispreviously unknown story of poverty, punishment, and transportation.

The story begins with the American War of Independence, untilwhich many British convicts were shipped across the Atlantic. TheRevolution interrupted this flow and inspired two entrepreneurs to orga-nize the criminals into military units to fight for the crown. The felonsoldiers went to West Africa’s slave-trading posts just as the war ended;these forts became the new destination for England’s rapidly multiplyingconvicts. The move was a disaster. Christopher writes that “before thescheme was abandoned, it would have run the gamut of piracy, treach-ery, mutiny, starvation, poisonings, allegations of white women forced toprostitute themselves to African men, and not least several cases of mur-der.” To end the scandal, the British government chose a new destina-tion, as far away as possible: Australia.

Christopher here captures the gritty lives of Britain’s convicts: vic-tims of London’s underworld, rife with brutal crime and sometimes evenmore brutal punishments. Equally fascinating are the portraits of Fantepeople of West Africa, forced to undergo dramatic changes in their roleas intermediaries with Europeans in the slave trade. Here, too, are theaboriginal Australians, coping with the transformation of their nativeland. They all inhabit A Merciless Place: a tour de force and historical nar-rative at its finest.

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Emma Christopher is an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University ofSydney. She is the author of Slave Trade Sailors and their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 and co-editor of Many Middle Passages. She has been a Mellon Fellow at theHuntington Library and a Gilder Lehrman Fellow at Yale University.






Almost two decades after NAFTA a leading expert proposes a new North American agenda to make thecontinent more competitive with Europe and Asia

THE NORTH AMERICAN IDEAA Vision of a Continental FutureROBERT A. PASTOR

In its first seven years, the North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) tripled trade and quintupled foreign investment among the

U.S., Mexico, and Canada, increasing its share of the world economy. In2001, however, North America peaked. Trade slowed among the three,manufacturing jobs shrunk, and illegal migration and drug-related vio-lence soared. Europe caught up, and China leaped ahead.

In The North American Idea, eminent scholar and policy-makerRobert A. Pastor explains that NAFTA’s mandate was too limited toaddress the new North American agenda. Instead of offering bold ini-tiatives like a customs union to expand trade, the three leaders thoughtsmall. Interest groups stalemated the small ideas as they inhibited thebolder proposals, and the governments accomplished almost nothing.

To overcome this resistance and re-invigorate the continent, theleaders need to start with an idea based on a principle of interdepen-dence. If one country fails, all three are harmed, and if one grows, theyall benefit. Drawing on first-hand experience as a policy-maker and ana-lyst, Pastor shows how this idea—once woven into the national con-sciousness of the three countries—could mobilize public support forcontinental solutions to problems that have confounded each nationworking on its own. To stimulate trade and reduce illegal migration, forexample, the three countries could set up a fund to invest in the conti-nent’s infrastructure. Such a fund would be impossible without leader-ship and an idea of the continent’s current importance and its future promise.

Providing essential historical context and challenging readers to viewthe continent in a new way, Robert Pastor offers an expansive vision anda detailed blueprint for a more integrated, dynamic, and equitable North America.


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Robert A. Pastor is Professor of International Relations and Founder and Directorof the Center for North American Studies at American University. He served onthe National Security Council and as a Consultant to the State and DefenseDepartments. He is the author of sixteen other books, including Limits toFriendship: The U.S. and Mexico, with Jorge Castaneda, and Exiting the Whirlpool:U.S. Foreign Policy to Latin America.

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An inspiring guide to cultivating deeper awareness on thepath of Christian contemplation

A SUNLIT ABSENCESilence, Awareness, and ContemplationMARTIN LAIRD

The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts,” writesMartin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. “Not a technique but a skill, it

harnesses the winds of grace that lead us out into the liberating sea of silence.”

In this companion volume to his bestselling Into the Silent Land,Laird focuses on a quality often overlooked by books on Christian med-itation: a vast and flowing spaciousness that embraces both silence andsound, and transcends all subject/object dualisms. Drawing on the wis-dom of great contemplatives from St. Augustine and St. Teresa of Avilato St. Hesychios, Simone Weil, and many others, Laird shows how wecan uncover the deeper levels of awareness that rest within us like buriedtreasure waiting to be found. The key insight of the book is that as ourpractice matures, so will our experience of life’s ordeals, sorrows, and joysexpand into generous, receptive maturity. We learn to see whatever dif-ficulties we experience in meditation—boredom, lethargy, arrogance,depression, grief, anxiety—not as obstacles to be overcome but as oppor-tunities to practice surrender to what is. With clarity and grace Lairdshows how we can move away from identifying with our turbulent, ever-changing thoughts and emotions to the cultivation of a “sunlitabsence”—the luminous awareness in which God’s presence can mostprofoundly be felt.

Addressed to both beginners and intermediates on the pathless pathof still prayer, A Sunlit Absence offers wise guidance on the specifics ofcontemplative practice as well as an inspiring vision of the purpose ofsuch practice and the central role it can play in our spiritual lives.

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Behavioral Treatment Program, this helpful guide teaches individualswith bipolar disorder how to take charge of their illness and get the mostout of professional treatment. The authors stress the importance of anactive partnership in treatment, while providing information and strate-gies to help patients and their families enhance their independence andtheir management of bipolar disorder. In addition to the strategiesdirected to individuals suffering from bipolar disorder, this book alsoprovides information and instructions for friends and family membersso they’ll have the tools to help their loved ones. Family members willlearn how to recognize potential problems, provide encouragement,practice new coping skills, and understand what the patient is goingthrough. The book also provides worksheets and forms to help thepatient reinforce skills and practices learned in therapy. It includes infor-mation about the details of living with bipolar disorder, gives advice onthe best ways to avoid relapses, and teaches how to anticipate problems.

Here then is a wealth of information on bipolar disorder partneredwith effective strategies to reduce the likelihood of episodes ofdepression or mania and maximize the enjoyment of life.

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Michael W. Otto is Director of the Translational Research Program at the Centerfor Anxiety and Related Disorders and Professor of Psychology at Boston University.Noreen A. Reilly-Harrington is a Clinical Psychologist and Instructor in Psychologyat Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Robert O. Knauzis a Clinical Psychologist and Instructor in Psychology at the MassachusettsGeneral Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Aude Henin is Director of theChild CBT Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professorof Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.Jane N. Kogan is Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School ofMedicine and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Gary S. Sachs is Director ofthe Bipolar Clinic and Research Program and Associate Professor of Psychiatry atthe Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.


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A literary journey through Paris via its famed Métro in 22stories by Balzac, Zola, Simenon, Maupassant, and many others

PARIS METRO TALESTranslated and edited by HELEN CONSTANTINE

Following Helen Constantine’s highly successful Paris Tales, Paris MetroTales offers 22 remarkable short stories set throughout Paris—allconnected by the underground tunnels of its famed Metro.The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at 20 underground

stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck-Caulaincourt, each story cor-responding to one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris. Readers are invitedto find their way through the underground, changing trains when neces-sary and imaginatively emerging to read a story it its original setting. Thestories range from the 15th-century account of the miraculous SaintGeneviève, patron saint of Paris, through tales by favorite writers such asZola, Simenon, Balzac, and Maupassant. Though connected by themetro, the subjects of these short stories vary widely: from MartineDelerm’s gripping narrative of the last hours of Modigliani’s mistress toGérard de Nerval’s rich evocation of the bustling market in Les Halles inthe 1850s, Colette’s unlikely involvement in a traffic accident near theOpéra, and Boulanger’s fine description of a blackly funny experience inPère Lachaise. In addition to writers well known to the English-speakingworld, this collection also includes French authors whose work deserveswider attention, including Frédéric Fajardie, Martine Delerm, MarieDesplechin, Paul Fournel, and Claude Dufresne. Each story is illustratedwith a black-and-white photograph and the book includes a map andsuggested itinerary through the metro system.Perfect for fans of Paris Tales, connoisseurs of French fiction, and all

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Helen Constantine has published three volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales,French Tales, and Berlin Tales and is currently editing a series of City Tales for OUP.She is married to the writer David Constantine and with him edits the internation-al magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.


Donald Worster’s A Passion for Nature is the most complete accountof the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever

written. It is the first to be based on Muir’s full private correspondenceand to meet modern scholarly standards, yet it is also full of rich detailand personal anecdote, uncovering the complex inner life behind thelegend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhoodin Scotland and frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in California rightafter the Civil War, up to his death on the eve of WorldWar I. It exploreshis marriage and family life, his relationship with his abusive father, hismany friendships with the humble and famous (including TheodoreRoosevelt and Ralph Waldo Emerson), and his role in founding themodern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muir’s passionfor the wilderness, Americans created a long and stunning list of nation-al parks and wilderness areas, Yosemite most prominent among them.Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower, atalented scientist and world-traveler, a doting father and husband, and aself-made man of wealth and political influence. The winner of numer-ous book awards, A Passion for Nature was also named a Best Book of2008 by Washington Post Book World. It is the first comprehensive biog-raphy of Muir to appear in six decades.

“Superb. Yosemite’s greatbard bursts through

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—Douglas Brinkley,Los Angeles Times

A Passion for NatureThe Life of

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“A wonderful book that celebrates Muir’s life and legacy.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“A complete and completely appealing picture of a morecomplicated man than we thought we knew.”

—Boston Globe“The record of Muir’s life that Worster has scrupulouslyassembled, fascinating in its own right, takes on added

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A comprehensive and caring handbook on how toapproach the final years of life, now in a thoroughlyupdated second edition

HANDBOOK FOR MORTALSGuidance for People Facing Serious IllnessSecond EditionJOANNE LYNN, MD, JANICE LYNN SCHUSTER,and JOAN HARROLD, MD

Modern medical technology has changed not only the way we livebut also the way we die. Until two generations ago, people usual-

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approach the final years of life with greater awareness of what to expectand greater confidence about how to make the end of their lives a timeof growth, comfort, and meaningful reflection. Written by Dr. JoanneLynn and a team of experts, this book provides equal measures of prac-tical information and wise counsel. Readers will learn what decisionsthey will need to face, what choices are available to them, where to lookfor help, how to ease pain and other symptoms, what to expect with spe-cific diseases, how the health-care system operates, and how the entireexperience affects dying persons, their families, and their friends. Suchpractical information is indispensable. But equally important are thepersonal stories included here of how people have come to terms withserious illness and dying, how they have faced their fears and made theirchoices. These give us moving firsthand insights into a profoundlyimportant process, one that is often kept hidden in our culture.From down-to-earth advice on how to talk to your doctor to inspir-

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Joanne Lynn, MD is one of the first hospice physicians in the US, one of the majorcontributors to research and policy on care for the last phase of life, and a formerprofessor at Dartmouth and George Washington University.Joan Harrold, MD is the Medical Director/Vice President of Medical Services ofHospice of Lancaster County in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.Janice Lynch Schuster is Senior Writer for Altarum Institute, where she specializesin writing about health care and public health. She has worked with Dr. Lynn since1997 on efforts to improve end-of-life care.


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“The definitive work: encyclopedic, discriminating,provocative, perceptive and eminently readable”—Washington Post Book World

THE HISTORY OF JAZZSecond EditionTED GIOIA

Ted Gioia’s History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic—acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings

his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest researchand revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present.

Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a bookthat brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles,and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the greatmoments of jazz history—Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, DukeEllington at the Cotton Club, cool jazz greats such as Gerry Mulligan, StanGetz, and Lester Young, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie’s advocacy ofmodern jazz in the 1940s, Miles Davis’s 1955 performance at the NewportJazz Festival, Ornette Coleman’s experiments with atonality, Pat Metheny’svisionary extension of jazz-rock fusion, the contemporary sounds ofWyntonMarsalis, and the post-modernists of the current day. Gioia provides the read-er with lively portraits of these and many other great musicians, intertwinedwith vibrant commentary on the music they created. He also evokes themany worlds of jazz, taking the reader to the swamp lands of the MississippiDelta, the bawdy houses of New Orleans, the rent parties of Harlem, thespeakeasies of Chicago during the Jazz Age, the after hours spots of corruptKansas city, the Cotton Club, the Savoy, and the other locales where the his-tory of jazz was made. And as he traces the spread of this protean form, Gioiaprovides much insight into the social context in which the music was born.

Praise for previous edition:

“The sweep of Ted Gioia’s narrative is grand, indeed helps usunderstand just how grand the story of jazz really is.... If youare looking for an introduction to jazz, this is it. If you knowand love jazz well, this is your vade mecum.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

“The best book of its kind. A miracle of concision. Gioia does thejob with polish, clarity, justice, and surprising completeness.”—Gary Giddins, award-winning author of Visions of Jazz

“An all-encompassing short history of the genre that hasdominated 20th-century music.”—The New York Times Book Review

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One of the world’s foremost experts on Cyprus offers abalanced and clear-eyed assessment of the conflictbetween Greek and Turkish Cypriots

THE CYPRUS PROBLEMWhat Everyone Needs to KnowJAMES KER-LINDSAY

For nearly 60 years—from its uprising against British rule in the1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots

in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s, and theUnited Nation’s ongoing 30-year effort to reunite the island—the tinyMediterranean nation of Cyprus has taken a disproportionate share ofthe international spotlight. And while it has been often in the news,accurate and impartial information on the conflict has been nearlyimpossible to obtain.In The Cyprus Problem, James Ker-Lindsay—recently appointed as

expert advisor to the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor onCyprus—offers an incisive, even-handed account of the conflict. Ker-Lindsay covers all aspects of the Cyprus problem, placing it in historicalcontext, addressing the situation as it now stands, and looking toward itspossible resolution. The book begins with the origins of the Greek andTurkish Cypriot communities as well as the other indigenous communi-ties on the island (Maronites, Latin, Armenians, and Gypsies). Ker-Lindsay then examines the tensions that emerged between the Greek andTurkish Cypriots after independence in 1960 and the complex constitu-tional provisions and international treaties designed to safeguard thenew state. He pays special attention to the Turkish invasion in 1974 andthe subsequent efforts by the UN and the international community toreunite Cyprus. The book’s final two chapters address a host of pressingissues that divide the two Cypriot communities, including key concernsover property, refugee returns, and the repatriation of settlers. Ker-Lindsay concludes by considering whether partition really is the bestsolution, as many observers increasingly suggest.Written by a leading expert, The Cyprus Problem brings much need-

ed clarity and understanding to a conflict that has confounded observersand participants alike for decades.

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A comprehensive new addition to the What EveryoneNeeds to Know series, illuminating the subject of drugabuse and our efforts to contain it

DRUGS AND DRUG POLICYWhat Everyone Needs to KnowMARK A.R. KLEIMAN, JONATHAN P. CAULKINS, andANGELA HAWKEN

While there have always been norms and customs around the use ofdrugs, explicit public policies—regulations, taxes, and prohibi-

tions—designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon.Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominentlythe development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (oruntaxed) drugs and the use of the profits of drug-dealing to financeinsurgency and terrorism. Neither a drug-free world nor a world of freedrugs seems to be on offer, leaving citizens and officials to face the age-old problem: What are we going to do about drugs?In Drugs and Drug Policy, three noted authorities survey the subject

with exceptional clarity, in this addition to the acclaimed series, WhatEveryone Needs to Know. They begin by defining “drugs,” examining howthey work in the brain, discussing the nature of addiction, and explor-ing the damage they do to users. The book moves on to policy, answer-ing questions about legalization, the role of criminal prohibitions, andthe relative legal tolerance for alcohol and tobacco. The authors then dis-sect the illicit trade, from street dealers to the flow of money to the effectof catching kingpins, and show the precise nature of the relationshipbetween drugs and crime. They examine treatment, both its effectivenessand the role of public policy, and discuss the beneficial effects of someabusable substances. Finally they move outward to look at the role ofdrugs in our foreign policy, their relationship to terrorism, and the uglypolitics that surround the issue.Crisp, clear, and comprehensive, this is an illuminating and up-to-

date overview of one of the most pressing topics in today’s world.

Mark A.R. Kleiman is Professor of Public Policy at UCLA, editor of The Journal ofDrug Policy Analysis, and author of When Brute Force Fails and Against Excess.Jonathan P. Caulkins is Stever Professor of Operations Research and Public Policyat Carnegie Mellon University.Angela Hawken is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University.


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“A gripping tale well told of the man and his times—andwhy we still care.”—American History magazine

DILLINGER’S WILD RIDEThe Year That Made America’s Public Enemy Number OneELLIOTT J. GORN

In an era that witnessed the rise of celebrity outlaws like Baby FaceNelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger wasthe most famous and flamboyant of them all. Reports on the man andhis misdeeds—spiced with accounts of his swashbuckling bravado andcool daring—provided an America worn down by the Great Depressionwith a salacious mix of sex and violence that proved irresistible.In Dillinger’s Wild Ride, Elliott J. Gorn provides a riveting account

of the year between 1933 and 1934, when the Dillinger gang pulled overa dozen bank jobs and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars. A dozenmen—police, FBI agents, gangsters, and civilians—lost their lives in therampage, and American newspapers breathlessly followed every shootingand jail-break. As Dillinger’s wild year unfolded, the tale grew larger andlarger in newspapers and newsreels, and even today, Dillinger is the sub-ject of pulp literature, serious poetry and fiction, and film. What is thepower of his story? Why has it lingered so long?Who was John Dillinger? Gorn illuminates the significance of

Dillinger’s tremendous fame and the endurance of his legacy, arguingthat he represented an American fascination with primitive freedomagainst social convention. Dillinger’s story has much to tell us about ourenduring fascination with outlaws, crime and violence, about the com-plexity of our transition from rural to urban life, and about the trans-formation of America during the Great Depression.

“Gripping tale well told of the man and his times—and why westill care”—American History

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Elliott J. Gorn is Professor of History and American Studies at Brown University.He is the author of The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America andMother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, among other books.

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Thorough coverage of what prostate cancer recovery is likeand how to achieve the best possible long-term results

AFTER PROSTATE CANCERA What-Comes-Next Guide to a Safe and Informed RecoveryARNOLD MELMAN, MD and ROSEMARY NEWNHAM

Men who have completed prostate cancer treatment often findthemselves facing new challenges and setbacks that do not neces-

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Ranging from the battlefield to the home front, afascinating resource packed with information onthe people and events of the American Civil War

THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIAOF THE CIVIL WARWILLIAM L. BARNEY

Agold mine for the historian as well as the Civil War buff, The OxfordEncyclopedia of the Civil War offers a concise, comprehensive

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A step-by-step guide to creating an exercise program toelevate mood and relieve stress, with special focus on howto stay motivated

EXERCISE FOR MOOD ANDANXIETYProven Strategies for Overcoming Depressionand Enhancing Well-BeingMICHAEL OTTO, PhD and JASPER SMITS, PhD

Exercise has long been touted anecdotally as an effective tool to raisespirits or reduce tension, but only recently has rigorous sciencecaught up with these claims. Now there is overwhelming evidence thatregular exercise can help relieve everything from common feelings ofstress and anxiety to full-blown depression.With Exercise for Mood and Anxiety, well-known authorities Michael

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Michael W. Otto, PhD is Professor of Psychology at Boston University. He hasdone extensive research on strategies to improve treatments for anxiety, mood, andsubstance use disorders.Jasper A. J. Smits, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychology at Southern MethodistUniversity. He has done research on both anxiety disorders and health habitssuch as smoking, including a current large-scale study on the use of exercisefor smoking cessation.



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CriticalTheory emerged in the 1920s from theworkof theFrankfurt School,the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose—and,

if at all possible, cure—the ills of society, particularly fascism and capital-ism. In this book, Stephen Eric Bronner provides sketches of leading rep-resentatives of the critical tradition (such as George Lukacs and ErnstBloch, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse andJurgen Habermas) as well as many of its seminal texts and empirical inves-tigations. This Very Short Introduction sheds light on the cluster of conceptsand themes that set critical theory apart from its more traditional philo-sophical competitors. Bronner explains and discusses concepts such asmethod and agency, alienation and reification, the culture industry andrepressive tolerance, non-identity and utopia. He argues for the introduc-tion of new categories and perspectives for illuminating the obstacles toprogressive change and focusing upon hidden transformative possibilities.Only a critique of critical theory can render it salient for a new age. That isprecisely what this very short introduction provides.

Stephen Eric Bronner is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Directorfor Global Relations at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights,Rutgers University.

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GENIUSA Very Short IntroductionANDREW ROBINSON

Genius is the name we give to a quality of work that transcends fash-ion, celebrity, fame, and reputation. Somehow, genius abolishes

both the time and the place of its origin. Shakespeare’s plays and Mozart’smelodies and harmonies continue to move people in languages and cul-tures far removed from their native England and Austria. Similarly,Darwin’s ideas are still required reading for every working biologist; theycontinue to generate fresh thinking and experiments around the world.The first concise study of genius in both the arts and the sciences, thisVery Short Introduction uses the life and work of familiar geniuses—including Homer, Leonardo, Tolstoy, Marie Curie, Galileo, andNewton—to illuminate both the individual and the general aspects ofgenius. In particular, Robinson explores the roles of talent, heredity, par-enting, education, training, hard work, intelligence, personality, mentalillness, inspiration, eureka moments, and luck, in the making of genius.

Andrew Robinson is currently a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.He is the author of some twenty books covering both the arts and the science.

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PENTECOSTALISMA Very Short IntroductionWILLIAM K. KAY

In this Very Short Introduction, William K. Kay outlines the origins andgrowth of Pentecostalism, looking not only at the theological aspects ofthe movement, but also at the sociological influences of its political andhumanitarian viewpoints. He shows that its history goes back toMethodism and, before that, to earlier revival movements, while its the-ology includes elements of holiness teaching and Adventism in a uniquepattern focused upon Jesus. Kay discusses how Pentecostalism wasjoined in the 1960s by a new religious wave, the “charismatic move-ment,” which spilled over into mainline Christian denominations andtransformed their worship.

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HUMANISMA Very Short IntroductionSTEPHEN LAW

People of faith often argue that without God, there can be no morality;that without religion, our lives are meaningless. In this Very ShortIntroduction, philosopher Stephen Law explains why these claims are falseand why humanism—though a rejection of religion—nevertheless pro-vides both a moral basis and a meaning for our lives. Indeed, Law showsthat humanism is a quite positive alternative to religion, one that allows usto enjoy meaningful, purposeful, and good lives without religion. And farfrom embracing moral nihilism, humanists are often deeply committedpeople, to be found at the forefront of many important ethical campaigns.

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LATE ANTIQUITYA Very Short IntroductionGILLIAN CLARK

In this vibrant and compact introduction, Gillian Clark reveals that lateantiquity was a period of great transformation. Late antiquity sawRoman law codified, Christian creeds formulated, the Talmud compiled,and the Qur’an composed. If the Goths sacked the city of Rome, theVandals built churches in Africa and Attila the Hun received an embassyfrom Constantinople. Anthony of Egypt and Simeon Stylites offeredspectacular new models of holiness, while Augustine and Basil andBenedict devised rules for monastic communities. Late antique artistsproduced the mosaics of Ravenna and the first dome of Hagia Sophia.

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William K. Kay is Professor of Theology at Glyndwr University and foundingDirector of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies.

Stephen Law is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College,University of London.

Gillian Clark is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol.

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EARLY MUSICA Very Short IntroductionTHOMAS FORREST KELLY

From Gregorian chant to Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti, the music ofthe Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods is both beautifuland intriguing, expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In thisVery Short Introduction, Thomas Forrest Kelly provides not only a com-pact overview of the music itself, but also a lively look at the manyattempts over the last two centuries to revive it. Kelly shows that theearly-music revival has long been grounded in the idea of spontaneity, ofexcitement, and of recapturing experiences otherwise lost to us—eitherthe rediscovery of little-known repertories or the recovery of lost per-forming styles, with the conviction that, with the right performance, themusic will come to life anew. Blending musical and social history, heshows how the Early Music movement in the 1960s took on politicalovertones, fueled by a rebellion against received wisdom and enforcedconformity. Kelly also discusses ongoing debates about authenticity, thedesirability of period instruments, and the relationship of mainstreamopera companies and symphony orchestras to music that they oftenignore, or play in modern fashion.

Thomas Forrest Kelly is Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music at HarvardUniversity and a past president of Early Music America.

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BEAUTYA Very Short IntroductionROGER SCRUTON

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhila-rating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited

variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very ShortIntroduction, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the con-cept of beauty, asking what makes an object—either in art, in nature, orthe human form—beautiful, and examining how we can compare dif-fering judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that ourtastes vary so widely. Is there a right judgment to be made about beau-ty? Is it right to say there is more beauty in a classical temple than a con-crete office block, more in a Rembrandt than in an Andy WarholCampbell Soup Can? Forthright and thought-provoking, and as acces-sible as it is intellectually rigorous, this introduction to the philosophyof beauty draws conclusions that some may find controversial, but, asScruton shows, help us to find greater sense of meaning in the beautifulobjects that fill our lives.

Roger Scruton is Research Professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences,in Arlington, Virginia.

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ORGANIZATIONSA Very Short IntroductionMARY JO HATCH

Organizations are everywhere, but we rarely give much thought to wherethey came from and what they might become in the future. How and whydo they have so much influence over us? How do they contribute to anddetract from the meaningfulness of our lives, and how might we improvethem so they better serve our needs and desires? This Very ShortIntroduction addresses all of these questions and many more. Drawing onexamples from the animal kingdom as well as from business, government,and other formal organizations, Mary Jo Hatch provides a lively andthought-provoking introduction to the process of organization.

Mary Jo Hatch is C. Coleman McGehee Eminent Scholars Research ProfessorEmerita of Banking and Commerce at the University of Virginia.

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CANCERA Very Short IntroductionNICK JAMES

Every year 10 million people are diagnosed with cancer, around 80% ofwhom are destined to die from it. This Very Short Introduction exploresthe disease underlying these figures, starting with the basic facts beforedescribing the bigger picture of the economics and politics of cancercare. Nick James, founder of the CancerHelp website, examines thetrends in diagnosis and the constant improvements in treatment thatresult in better cure rates and increased quality and quantity of life forcancer patients. The book also considers issues surrounding expensivedrug development and highlights what can be done to reduce the risk ofdeveloping cancer.

Nick James is Professor of Clinical Oncology at the University of Birmingham.

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MUHAMMADA Very Short IntroductionJONATHAN A. C. BROWN

As the founder of Islam, a religion with over one billion followers,Muhammad is beyond all doubt one of the most influential figures

in world history. But learning about his life and understanding his impor-tance has always proven difficult, as our only source of knowledge comesfrom the biography of him written by his followers, the reliability ofwhich has been questioned by Western scholars. This Very ShortIntroduction provides a superb introduction to the major aspects ofMuhammad’s life and its importance, providing both Muslim andWestern historical perspectives. It explains the prominent roles thatMuhammad’s persona has played in the Islamic world throughout histo-ry, from the medieval to the modern period. The book also sheds light onmodern controversies such as the Satanic Verses, for which author SalmanRushdie was condemned for blasphemy, and the uproar over Danish car-toons of Muhammad, which triggered violent protests around the world.As these recent events show, whatever the truth about Muhammad’s life,his persona still plays a crucial role in Muslim life and civilization.

Jonathan A. C. Brown is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at theUniversity of Washington, Seattle.

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AMERICAN IMMIGRATIONA Very Short IntroductionDAVID A. GERBER

Athoughtful look at immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, andthe motivations and experiences of the migrants themselves, this

book offers a compact but wide-ranging look at one of America’s persis-tent hot-button issues. Historian David Gerber begins by examining themany legal efforts to curb immigration and to define who is and is notan American, ranging from the Naturalization Law of 1795 to theImmigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which opened the door tomillions of newcomers, the vast majority from Asia and Latin America.The book also looks at immigration from the perspective of themigrant—farmers and industrial workers, mechanics and domestics,highly trained professionals and small-business owners—who willinglypulled up stakes for the promise of a better life. Throughout, the booksheds light on the relationships between race and ethnicity in the life ofthese groups and in the formation of American society, and it stresses themarked continuities across waves of immigration and across differentracial and ethnic groups.

David A. Gerber is Distinguished Professor of History at the University at Buffalo.He is the author of The Making of an American Pluralism and Authors of Their Lives.

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SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONA Very Short IntroductionLAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such stunning discov-eries about the natural world that the period has been called the“Scientific Revolution.” In this Very Short Introduction Lawrence M.Principe explores the exciting developments in the sciences of the stars(astronomy, astrology, and cosmology), the sciences of earth (geography,geology, hydraulics, pneumatics), the sciences of matter and motion(alchemy, chemistry, kinematics, physics), the sciences of life (medicine,anatomy, biology, zoology), and much more. The story is told from theperspective of the historical characters themselves—Copernicus, Galileo,Newton—emphasizing their background, reasoning, and motivations,and dispelling well-worn myths about the history of science.

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PAGANISMA Very Short IntroductionOWEN DAVIES

Written in a concise and lively style, this Very Short Introduction exploresthe meaning of the words “pagan” and “paganism” from the ancientworld through to the present day. Owen Davies looks at paganism large-ly through the eyes of the Christian world, describing how, over the cen-turies, notions and representations of paganism were shaped by religiousconflict, power struggles, colonialism, and scholarship. Although theemphasis is on the experience of paganism in Europe, Davies also dis-cusses how the idea of paganism spread around the globe as Europecame into contact with new cultures through colonial expansion, mis-sionary work, and anthropological study.

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NUCLEAR POWERA Very Short IntroductionMAXWELL IRVINE

With the world desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbongases—a desire compounded by the sky-rocketing cost of fossil fuels—nuclear power is back on the agenda. In this Very Short Introduction,Maxwell Irvine provides an informative and balanced overview of the entiresubject. After a concise history of nuclear physics and of the nuclear powerindustry, Irvine discusses the nature of nuclear energy and the variousaspects of public concern, including the safety risks, the cost of its develop-ment, and the problems of waste disposal. The book looks specifically atsafety records, including accounts of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

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Lawrence M. Principe is Drew Professor of the Humanities, in the Department ofthe History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University.

Owen Davies is Reader in History at the University of Hertfordshire and theauthor of Grimoires: A History of Magic Books.

Maxwell Irvine is Honorary Professor of Physics at Manchester University.

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SCIENCE FICTIONA Very Short IntroductionDAVID SEED

In this Very Short Introduction, David Seed doesn’t offer a history of sciencefiction, but instead attempts to tie examples of science fiction to differenthistorical moments, in order to demonstrate how science fiction has evolvedover time, especially its emergence as a popular genre in the 20th century.Seed looks not only at literature, but also at drama and poetry, as well asfilm. Examining recurrent themes in science fiction, he looks at voyagesinto space, the concept of the alien, the role of technology in science fic-tion, and its relation to time—in the past, present, and future.

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CONSCIENCEA Very Short IntroductionPAUL STROHM

From Cicero and Augustine through the middle ages and into theReformation, this Very Short Introduction considers conscience as a mat-ter of human rights and obligations, as well as an important issue in con-temporary politics. Written by Paul Strohm, an eminent authority in thefield and an engaging writer, this compact book provides a thought-pro-voking introduction to a compelling topic. Arranged chronologically tofocus on a series of important moments in the history of conscience, thevolume explores a wide variety of texts and events, providing a conciseintroduction to the evolution of ideas and debates about conscience.

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HERODOTUSA Very Short IntroductionJENNIFER T. ROBERTS

Hailed by Cicero as “the father of history,” Herodotus was both a criticalthinker and a lively storyteller, a traveler who was both tourist andanthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds inwords, in particular, the wars between Greece and Persia. This Very ShortIntroduction introduces readers to what little is known of Herodotus’s lifeand discusses all aspects of his work, including his travels; his interest inseeing the world and learning about non-Greek civilizations; the recur-ring themes of his work; his beliefs in dreams, oracles, and omens; andhis account of the battles of the Persian Wars.

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David Seed is Professor in the School of English, University of Liverpool.

Paul Strohm is the Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanitiesat Columbia University.

Jennifer T. Roberts is Professor of Classics and History, City College of New York.


RISKA Very Short IntroductionBARUCH FISCHHOFF and JOHN KADVANY

We find risk everywhere—from genetically modified crops, medicalmalpractice, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online preda-

tors, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own actsand they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, BaruchFischhoff and John Kadvany draw on both the sciences and humanitiesto illuminate both the similarities and differences of various kinds ofrisk. Using conceptual frameworks such as decision theory and behav-ioral decision research, they examine the science and practice of creatingmeasures of risk and look at how scientists apply probability by com-bining historical records, scientific theories, and expert judgment.Perhaps more important, they show what science has learned about howpeople deal with risks, applying these lessons to diverse everyday exam-ples, demonstrating how we can move from understanding a risk tomaking a choice to diminish risk in everyday life.

Baruch Fischhoff is Howard Heinz University Professor in the Department ofSocial and Decision Sciences and the Department of Engineering and Public Policyat Carnegie Mellon University. John Kadvany is a consultant whose clients includethe Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy.

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TREASURE ISLANDNew EditionROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEdited by PETER HUNT

Robert Louis Stevenson reinvented the adventure genre with TreasureIsland, a boys’ story that appeals just as much to adults, and whose moralambiguities turned the Victorian universe on its head. This editioncelebrates the ultimate book of pirates and high adventure, and alsoexamines how this tale of greed, murder, treachery, and evil has acquiredits classic status. The book features an informative introduction andexplanatory notes by Peter Hunt, an updated bibliography, a revisedchronology, a glossary of nautical terms, and two appendices—onefeaturing Stevenson’s short fable “The Persons of the Tale”.

MOLL FLANDERSNew EditionDANIEL DEFOEEdited by G. A. STARRIntroduction and Notes by LINDA BREE

A tour-de-force of writing by Daniel Defoe, this extraordinary noveltells the vivid and racy tale of a woman’s experience in the seamy sideof life in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England andAmerica. First published in 1722, and one of the earliest novels in theEnglish language, its account of opportunism, endurance, and survivalspeaks as strongly to us today as it did to its original readers. This newedition offers a critically edited text, a wide-ranging introductionand comprehensive notes by Linda Bree.

DRACULANew EditionBRAM STOKEREdited by ROGER LUCKHURST

Here is a new edition of one of the great horror stories in English lit-erature, the novel that launched an armada of vampire tales in film,television, graphic novels, cartoons, and teen fiction, including thecurrent Twilight and True Blood series. The volume includes a livelyand fascinating introduction by Roger Luckhurst, comprehensiveexplanatory notes that flesh out vampire mythology and historicalallusions, plus an appendix featuring Stoker’s short story, “Dracula’sGuest,” an early draft or abandoned chapter that was not published aspart of the novel.

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Peter Hunt is Professor Emeritus in Children’s Literature, University of Cardiff.

Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck College,University of London.

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THE GOSPELSAuthorized King James VersionEdited by W. R. OWENS

Jesus Christ is the central figure in Western culture, and one of themost influential in all human history. Almost everything we knowabout him is contained in four narratives of his life, death, and resurrec-tion—the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. This unique edi-tion of the Gospels, in the Authorized King James version, providesreaders with all the information they could need to appreciate the theo-logical importance and literary and cultural significance of these greatwritings. The volume features an illuminating introduction by W. R.Owens, who guides the reader through the four Gospels in turn, high-lighting how each offers its own distinctive and memorable portrait ofJesus, and discussing the importance of the 1611 translation and itsinfluence. The book’s explanatory notes clarify obscurities and allusions,ranging from aspects of life in first-century Palestine to seventeenth-cen-tury phraseology. There are also glossaries of words and terms, persons,and places, a chronology of the life of Jesus alongside historical events,and a map of Palestine in the time of Jesus.

W. R. Owens is Professor of English Literature at the Open University.


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SELECTED POEMSWith Parallel German TextRAINER MARIA RILKEEdited by ROBERT VILAINTranslated by SUSAN RANSON and MARIELLE SUTHERLAND

Rilke is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of thegreat twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of

Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, he constantlyprobed the relationship between his art and the world around him, movingfrom the neo-romantic and the mystic towards the precise craft of express-ing the everyday in poetry. This new edition—the only bilingual edition toinclude such a broad range of poems—fully reflects Rilke’s poetic develop-ment. It contains the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets toOrpheus, and selected poems from The Book of Images, New Poems, and ear-lier volumes, and from the uncollected poetry 1906-26. The translationsare accurate, sensitive, and nuanced, and are accompanied by an introduc-tion and notes that chart the development of Rilke’s poetic practice and hiscentral role in modern poetry. The book also includes a chronology, selectbibliography, and explanatory notes that identify people and places, andinclude key commentary by Rilke from letters or notes.

Robert Vilain is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at RoyalHolloway, University of London. Susan Ranson is a poet and translator.Marielle Sutherland is a published translator and author of Images of Absence.

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REDGAUNTLETReissueWALTER SCOTTEdited by KATHRYN SUTHERLAND

Arguably Scott’s finest novel, Redgauntlet tells the story of young DarsieLatimer, who finds himself caught up in the plot to install the exiledBonnie Prince Charlie on the British throne. This edition features theMagnum text of 1832, the last to be corrected by Scott, and it includesScott’s own notes. This reissue is the only available criticaledition and it includes a fine introduction by Kathryn Sutherland, anup-to-date bibliography, a timeline of Scottish history in the period ofthe novel, a chronology of Scott’s life, full explanatory notes, and aglossary of Scots words.

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THE SECRET GARDENNew EditionFRANCES HODGSON BURNETTEdited by PETER HUNT

Marking the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of The SecretGarden, this new edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic tale ofredemption and renewal features a fascinating introduction by PeterHunt that explores the relationship between the book and the 19th-cen-tury genres of girls’ stories, romances, the gothic, and the sensational,and examines the book’s symbolic undercurrents. The book includes newexplanatory notes that point out literary parallels and manuscriptchanges as well as glossing historical allusions and meanings, an up-to-date bibliography, a new chronology, and Burnett’s essay “My Robin,” acompanion piece to the book.

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SATIRES AND EPISTLESHORACETranslated by JOHN DAVIEIntroduction and Notes by ROBERT COWAN

Exuberantly mocking the vices and pretensions of his Roman contempo-raries, Horace’s Satires are packed with comic vignettes, moral insights, andhis pervasive humanity. In the Epistles, Horace used the form of letters toexplore questions of philosophy and how to live a good life. Perhaps thebest-known epistle, “The Art of Poetry” (Ars poetica), still influences writerstoday. These new prose translations by John Davie perfectly capture thelively, scurrilous, and frequently hilarious style of the satires, and the warmand engaging persona of the more meditative epistles. Robert Cowan’sintroduction and notes take account of the latest scholarship.

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Kathryn Sutherland is Professorial Fellow in English at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.

Peter Hunt is Professor Emeritus of Children’s Literature at Cardiff University.

John Davie is former Head of Classics at St. Paul’s School, in London.Robert Cowan is Fairfax Tutorial Fellow in Latin Literature at Balliol College, Oxford.

THE EUSTACE DIAMONDSNew EditionANTHONY TROLLOPEEdited by HELEN SMALL

The third in Trollope’s six-volume Palliser series, The Eustace Diamondsboasts an extraordinary heroine in Lizzie Eustace, a lying schemer in themould of Thackeray’s Becky Sharp. One of Trollope’s most engaging nov-els, it is a highly revealing study of Victorian Britain’s colonial activities inIreland and India, its veneration of wealth, and its pervasive dishonesty. Inher introduction, Helen Small places the novel within contemporary polit-ical and social debates. An appendix outlines the political context of thePalliser novels and establishes the internal chronology of the series and therelationship between fictional and actual political events. In addition, thebook includes a wealth of explanatory notes.

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THE PRIME MINISTERNew EditionANTHONY TROLLOPEEdited by NICHOLAS SHRIMPTON

The fifth in Trollope’s six-volume Palliser series, The Prime Minister is awonderfully subtle portrait of a marriage, political expediency, and mis-placed love. Nicholas Shrimpton’s introduction explores the manystrands of this complex novel, the role of the “outsider” FerdinandLopez, and Trollope’s great skill in integrating the two themes of loveand politics, the marriage of Palliser and Lady Glencora and that ofEmily Wharton and Ferdinand Lopez. The book includes a wealth ofuseful explanatory notes, and a valuable appendix which outlines thechronology of the Palliser novels, providing a unique understanding ofthe series as a linked narrative.


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RUTHNew EditionELIZABETH GASKELLEdited by TIM DOLIN

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth (1853) was the first mainstream novel to make afallen woman its eponymous heroine. Shocking to contemporary readers,its radical utopian vision of “a pure woman faithfully presented” predatesHardy’s Tess by nearly forty years. This fully revised and corrected newedition is based on the three-volume first edition of 1853, collated withthe one-volume 1855 edition. Tim Dolin’s fascinating new introductionexplores the novel’s radicalism and cultural influence, highlighting itsremarkable story of love, family, and hypocrisy. In addition, the bookincludes an up-to-date bibliography, a chronology of Gaskell’s life andwork, and invaluable notes.


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Helen Small is Fellow in English at Pembroke College, Oxford.

Nicholas Shrimpton is Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.

Tim Dolin is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Culture, and CreativeArts at Curtin University of Technology.

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RICHARD IIWILLIAM SHAKESPEAREEdited by ANTHONY B. DAWSON and PAUL YACHNIN

Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in theShakespeare canon, marking the transition from the earlier histo-

ry plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced rep-resentation of the political conflicts of England’s past where characterand politics are inextricably intertwined.This new edition in the acclaimed Oxford Shakespeare series features

a freshly edited version of the text. The wide-ranging introductiondescribes the play’s historical circumstances, both the period that it dra-matizes (the start of the “wars of the roses”) and the period in which itwas written (late Elizabethan England), and the play’s political signifi-cance in its own time and our own. It also focuses on the play’s richlypoetic language and its success over the centuries as a play for the stage.Extensive explanatory notes help readers at all levels understand andappreciate the language, characters, and dramatic action and the book’slively illustrations provide a sense of the historical background and per-formance of the play.

Anthony Dawson is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia.Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill Universityand President of the Shakespeare Association of America.

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Praised as “the kind of book that gives hagiography a good name” (TheTimes), this entertaining and authoritative dictionary is as browsable as itis informative, with more than 1,700 fascinating entries covering thelives, cults, and artistic associations of saints from around the world.This revised fifth edition includes appendices containing maps of pil-grimage sites, a list of saints’ patronages and iconographical emblems,and a calendar of principal feasts.

David Hugh Farmer, formerly Reader in History at Reading University, is theauthor or editor of nine books.

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The most authoritative paperback dictionary of quotations available,containing over 9,000 quotations from more than 2,300 authors,

the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is both a fascinating read andan invaluable general reference tool. Based on the highly acclaimed sev-enth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this new editionmaintains its extensive coverage of literary and historical quotations andcontains completely up-to-date material from today’s influential literaryand cultural figures. It is the only dictionary of quotations that ensurescoverage of the most popular and widely-used quotations by searchingthe largest ongoing language research program in the world, the OxfordEnglish Corpus. Readers will find wise and witty lines by Aristotle andMahatma Gandhi, Herman Melville and William Blake, Marie Curieand Montaigne. Over 1000 new quotes have been added for this edi-tion, and the dictionary includes special categories such as Catchphrases,Film Lines, Official Advice, and Political Slogans. An easy-to-use key-word index helps readers to track down quotations and their authors.

Susan Ratcliffe is an Associate Editor for Oxford Quotations Dictionaries and haspreviously edited the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation, the LittleOxford Dictionary of Quotations, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject.

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A DICTIONARY OF MARKETINGCHARLES DOYLE

Offering international coverage, this accessible and wide-ranging guideprovides over 2,600 alphabetical entries on virtually every aspect of

marketing, ranging from traditional marketing techniques and key theo-ries to the recent explosion of internet-related marketing methods.Readers will find entries on planning, pricing, promotion, positioning,pod-casting, social media marketing, and search engine optimization,among many other topics. The book also features a timeline of key eventsand over 100 web links, accessed via an up-to-date companion website.In addition, the main appendix provides great depth on the subject,including advertising and marketing case studies with a strong interna-tional focus. These are arranged thematically—automobile industry, foodand drink, luxury goods, and so on—illuminating the iconic brands,marketing campaigns, and slogans that have permeated our collectiveconsciousness, exploring how the ideas defined in the main text of thebook have been utilized successfully in practice across the globe. This dic-tionary is an indispensable resource for students of marketing and relat-ed disciplines, as well as a practical guide for professionals.

Charles Doyle is currently Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Research atJones Lang Lasalle in London.

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An outspoken defense of executive power, refuting theconventional wisdom about checks and balances and separation of powers

THE EXECUTIVE UNBOUNDAfter the Madisonian RepublicERIC A. POSNER and ADRIAN VERMEULE

Ever since Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. used “imperial presidency” as a book title, the term has become central to the debate about the

balance of power in the U.S. government. Since the presidency of GeorgeW. Bush, when advocates of executive power such as Dick Cheney gainedascendancy, the argument has blazed hotter than ever. Many argue theConstitution itself is in grave danger. What is to be done?

The answer, according to legal scholars Eric Posner and AdrianVermeule, is nothing. In The Executive Unbound, they provide a bracingchallenge to conventional wisdom, arguing that a strong presidency isinevitable in the modern world. Most scholars, they note, object totoday’s level of executive power because it varies so dramatically from thevision of the framers of the Constitution. But Posner and Vermeuleclosely examine James Madison’s writings, and find fault with hispremises. Like an ideal market, they write, Madison’s separation of powers has no central director, but it lacks the price system which givesan economy its structure; there is nothing in checks and balances thatintrinsically generates order or promotes positive arrangements. In fact,the greater complexity of the modern world produces a concentration ofpower, particularly in the White House. The authors chart the rise ofexecutive authority, noting that among strong presidents only Nixon hascome in for severe criticism, leading to legislation which was designed tolimit the presidency, yet which failed to do so. Political, cultural and social restraints, they argue, have been more effective in preventing dictatorship than any law. The executive-centered state tends to generate political checks that substitute for the legal checks of theMadisonian constitution.

Piety toward the founders and a historic fear of tyranny have beenpowerful forces in American political thinking. Posner and Vermeuleconfront them both in this startlingly original contribution.

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Eric A. Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of ChicagoLaw School, and is the author of The Perils of Global Legalism, Terror in the Balance(written with Vermeule), and Climate Change Justice, among other books.Adrian Vermeule is John H. Watson Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School,and is the author of Law and the Limits of Reason, Mechanisms of Democracy, and Judging Under Uncertainty, and is the co-author with Posner of Terror in the Balance.

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A fascinating account of how Britain hoodwinked herenemies during two world wars

A GENIUS FOR DECEPTIONHow Cunning Helped the British Win Two World WarsNICHOLAS RANKIN

In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tentsbehind British lines in North Africa. “Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents

was an old British trick,” writes Nicholas Rankin. German general ErwinRommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jonesknew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it—for these tents wereempty. With the deception that he was carrying out a deception, Jonesmade a weak point look like a trap.

In A Genius for Deception, Nicholas Rankin offers a lively and com-prehensive history of how Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its way tovictory in two world wars. As Rankin shows, a coherent program ofstrategic deception emerged in World War I, resting on the pillars ofcamouflage, propaganda, secret intelligence, and special forces. All formsof deception found an avid sponsor in Winston Churchill, who carriedhis enthusiasm for deceiving the enemy into World War II. Rankinvividly recounts such little-known episodes as the invention of camou-flage by two French artist-soldiers, the creation of dummy airfields forthe Germans to bomb during the Blitz, and the fabrication of an armythat would supposedly invade Greece. Strategic deception would be keyto a number of WWII battles, culminating in the massive misdirectionthat proved critical to the success of the D-Day invasion in 1944.

Deeply researched and written with an eye for telling detail, A Geniusfor Deception shows how the British used craft and cunning to help winthe most devastating wars in human history.

“There isn’t a dull page—not even a dull sentence—in NicholasRankin’s fantastic wunderkabinet of wartime revelations. Nobetter book about the mad arcana of belligerence has ever beenwritten.”—Simon Winchester

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A groundbreaking history of gentrification that locatesthe roots of urban revival in the movement for “authenticity” of the postwar era

THE INVENTION OFBROWNSTONE BROOKLYNGentrification and the Search for Authenticity in PostwarNew YorkSULEIMAN OSMAN

The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city’s

most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, BrownstoneBrooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars,yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses.

In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers agroundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation. Challengingthe conventional wisdom that New York City’s renaissance started in the1990s, Osman locates the origins of gentrification in Brooklyn in the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Gentrification began as a grassroots movement led by young and idealistic white college graduatessearching for “authenticity” and life outside the burgeoning suburbs.Where postwar city leaders championed slum clearance and modern architecture, “brownstoners” (as they called themselves) fought for a newromantic urban ideal that celebrated historic buildings, industrial lofts and traditional ethnic neighborhoods as a refuge from an increasinglytechnocratic society. Osman examines the emergence of a “slow-growth”progressive coalition as brownstoners joined with poorer residents to battle city planners and local machine politicians. But as brownstonersmigrated into poorer areas, race and class tensions emerged, and by the1980s, as newspapers parodied yuppies and anti-gentrification activistsmarched through increasingly expensive neighborhoods, brownstonersdebated whether their search for authenticity had been a success or failure.

The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn deftly mixes architectural, cultural and political history in this eye-opening perspective on the post-industrial city.

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Suleiman Osman is Assistant Professor of American Studies at George WashingtonUniversity. He grew up in Brooklyn’s Park Slope and now lives in Washington, D.C.

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An innovative guide by a top writing expert shows attorneys how to draft powerful legal arguments, following the lead of the nation’s great advocates

POINT MADEHow to Write Like the Nation’s Top AdvocatesROSS GUBERMAN

With Point Made, legal writing expert Ross Guberman throws a lifepreserver to attorneys, who are under more pressure than ever to

produce compelling prose. What is the strongest opening for a motion orbrief? How to draft winning headings? How to tell a persuasive story whenthe record is dry and dense? The answers are “more science than art,” saysGuberman, who has analyzed stellar arguments by distinguished attorneysto develop step-by-step instructions for achieving the results you want.

The author takes an empirical approach, drawing heavily on the writings of the nation’s 50 most influential lawyers, including BarackObama, John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Ted Olson, and David Boies. Theirstrategies, demystified and broken down into specific, learnable techniques, become a detailed writing guide full of practical models. InFCC v. Fox, for example, Kathleen Sullivan conjures the potentially dangerous, unintended consequences of finding for the other side (the“Why Should I Care?” technique). Arguing against allowing the FCC tocontinue fining broadcasters that let the “F-word” slip out, she highlightsthe chilling effect these fines have on America’s radio and TV stations, “discouraging live programming altogether, with attendant loss to valuableand vibrant programming that has long been part of American culture.”

Each chapter of Point Made focuses on a typically tough challenge,providing a strategic roadmap and practical tips along with annotatedexamples of how prominent attorneys have resolved that challenge invaried trial and appellate briefs. Short examples and explanations withengaging titles—“Brass Tacks,” “Talk to Yourself,” “Russian Doll”—deliver weighty materials with a light tone, making the guidelines easy toremember and apply.

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SOCIAL WORK TREATMENTInterlocking Theoretical ApproachesFifth EditionEdited by FRANCIS J. TURNER

First published in 1974, Social Work Treatment remains the most popular and trusted compendium of theories available to social work

students and practitioners. It explores the full range of theoreticalapproaches that drive social work treatment and knowledge development,from psychoanalysis to crisis intervention.

This treasure trove of practice knowledge equips professionals with abroad array of theoretical approaches, each of which shine a spotlight ona different aspect of the human condition. Emphasizing the importance ofa broad-based theoretical approach to practice, it helps the reader avoidthe pitfalls of becoming overly identified with a narrow focus that limitstheir understanding of clients and their contexts.

This sweeping overview of the field untangles the increasingly complex problems, ideologies, and value sets that define contemporarysocial work practice. The result is an essential A-to-Z reference thatcharts the full range of theoretical approaches available to social workersregardless of their setting or specialty.

Francis J. Turner, D.S.W. is a Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Facultyof Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo Ontario.

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FRICTIONHow Radicalization Happens to Them and UsCLARK McCAULEY and SOPHIA MOSKALENKO

This accessible book identifies twelve mechanisms of political radicalization that can move individuals, groups, and the masses

to increased sympathy and support for political violence. Terrorism isan extreme form of radicalization, and the book describes pathways to terrorism to demonstrate the twelve mechanisms at work.

Written by two psychologists who are acknowledged radicalizationexperts and consultants to the Department of Homeland Security,Friction draws heavily on case histories. The case material is wide-rang-ing—drawn from Russia in the late 1800s, the US in the 1970s, and theradical Islam encouraged by the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s.Taken together, the twelve mechanisms show how unexceptional peopleare moved to exceptional violence in the conflict between states andnon-state challengers. Captivating, and with psychological overtones,this timely book covers one of the most pressing issues of our time.

Clark McCauley is Rachel C. Hale Professor of Sciences and Mathematics and Co-Director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflictat Bryn Mawr College. Sophia Moskalenko is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism(NC-START).

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DEATH OR LIBERTYAfrican Americans and Revolutionary AmericaDOUGLAS R. EGERTON

In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle ofAfrican American history stretching from Britain’s 1763 victory in the

Seven Years’ War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified withantebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of theRevolution it encompassed everything from wading in the SouthCarolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving thehouseholds of Boston’s elite. More important, he recaptures the dramaof slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers fighting to make the youngnation fulfill its republican slogans. Although this struggle often unfolded in the corridors of power, Egerton pays special attention towhat black Americans did for themselves in these decades, and his narrative brims with compelling portraits of forgotten African Americanactivists and rebels, who battled huge odds and succeeded in finding liberty—if never equality—only in northern states. Egerton concludesthat despite the real possibility of peaceful, if gradual, emancipation, theFounders ultimately lacked the courage to end slavery.

Douglas R. Egerton is Joseph C. Georg Professor of History at Le Moyne College.His books include Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and theElection that Brought on the Civil War.

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TRI-FAITH AMERICAHow Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant PromiseKEVIN M. SCHULTZ

President Franklin D. Roosevelt put it bluntly, if privately, in 1942—theUnited States was “a Protestant country,” he said, “and the Catholics

and Jews are here under sufferance.” In Tri-Faith America, Kevin Schultzexplains how the United States left behind this idea that it was “aProtestant nation” and embraced the notion that Protestants, Catholics,and Jews were “Americans all.” Schultz describes how the tri-faith ideasurfaced after World War I, promoted by public relations campaigns,interfaith organizations, and the government to the extent that by the endof World War II, the idea was becoming widely accepted—particularly inthe armed forces, fraternities, neighborhoods, social organizations, andschools. During the Cold War, the public religiosity spurred by the fightagainst godless communism led to widespread embrace of tri-faithAmerica. Equally important, Schultz shows how Catholics and Jews inthe post-World War II era used tri-faith rhetoric to challenge the nation’sestablished moral authority. Indeed, as Americans began vigorouslydebating the merits of pluralism, they initiated a social and political climate that would pave the way toward the civil rights movement.

Kevin M. Schultz is Assistant Professor of History and Catholic Studies at theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago.

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CREATING THEIR OWN IMAGEThe History of African-American Women ArtistsLISA E. FARRINGTON

Hailed as “a captivating and thorough study of a long-ignored aspectof America’s art history” (CHOICE), Creating Their Own Image

offers the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists,spanning from slavery to the Harlem Renaissance and the tumultuouscivil rights era, right up to the present day. Lavishly illustrated throughout with color illustrations, this magnificent volume richly detailshundreds of important works—including some images never before published—to present a portrait of artistic creativity unprecedented in itsscope and ambition. Weaving together an expansive collection of artists, styles, and periods, Lisa Farrington argues that for centuriesAfrican-American women artists have created an alternative vision of howwomen of color can, are, and might be represented in American culture.From utilitarian objects such as quilts and baskets to a wide array of fine arts, Creating Their Own Image serves up compelling evidence of the fundamental human need to convey one’s life, emotions, and experienceson a canvas of one’s own making.

Lisa E. Farrington is Chairperson and Professor in the Department of Art &Music at John Jay College. Her books include Faith Ringgold and Art on Fire: ThePolitics of Race and Sex in the Paintings of Faith Ringgold.


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CLOTHED IN ROBES OFSOVEREIGNTYThe Continental Congress and the People Out of DoorsBENJAMIN H. IRVIN

After the Continental Congress declared independence in 1776, thereby severing political relations with Great Britain, it began to

fashion new objects and ceremonies of state with which to proclaim the sovereignty of the infant republic. Congress, for example, created anemblematic great seal, celebrated anniversaries of U.S. independence, andimplemented robust diplomatic protocols for the reception of foreignministers. Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty examines the material artifacts,festivities, and rituals by which Congress endeavored not only to assert itspolitical legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to glorifythe United States and to win the allegiance of the American people.Congress, however, could not simply impose its creations upon a quiescentpublic. In fact, as Benjamin H. Irvin demonstrates, the “people out ofdoors”—including the working poor who rallied in the streets ofPhiladelphia as well as women, loyalists, Native Americans and other persons not represented in Congress—vigorously contested the trappingsof nationhood into which Congress had enfolded them.

Benjamin H. Irvin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arizonaand author of Samuel Adams: Son of Liberty, Father of Revolution.

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A fascinating account of the presidential election thatchanged American politics forever

THE BIRTH OF MODERNPOLITICSAndrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828LYNN HUDSON PARSONS

The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General AndrewJackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed

as a watershed moment in American political history. It was the contest in which an unlettered, hot-tempered southwestern frontiersman, trumpeted by his supporters as a genuine man of the people, soundlydefeated a New England “aristocrat” whose education and political résuméwere as impressive as any ever seen in American public life. It was, manyhistorians have argued, the country’s first truly democratic presidential election. It was also the election that opened a Pandora’s boxof campaign tactics, including coordinated media, get-out-the-vote efforts,fund-raising, organized rallies, opinion polling, campaign paraphernalia,ethnic voting blocs, “opposition research,” and smear tactics.

In The Birth of Modern Politics, Parsons shows that the Adams-Jacksoncontest also began a national debate that is eerily contemporary, pitting those whose cultural, social, and economic values were rooted incommunity action for the common good against those who believed thecommon good was best served by giving individuals as much freedom aspossible to promote their own interests. The book offers fresh and illuminating portraits of both Adams and Jackson and reveals how, despitetheir vastly different backgrounds, they had started out with many of thesame values, admired one another, and had often been allies in commoncauses. But by 1828, caught up in a shifting political landscape, they wereplunged into a competition that separated them decisively from theFounding Fathers’ era and ushered in a style of politics that is still with us today.

“Short, smart, well-written and well-researched.”—Washington Post

“When you can read crisply written history from a trained historian with something profound on his mind, why go withpopularizers and pundits? The Birth of Modern Politics is both the anatomy of a campaign and a clever dissection of partisanship.”—Baton Rouge Advocate


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Lynn Hudson Parsons is Professor of History Emeritus at the State University of New York College at Brockport. He is the author of John Quincy Adams andcoeditor, with Kenneth Paul O’Brien, of The Home-Front War: World War II andAmerican Society.

THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTIONComing of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and FamilyKATHLEEN GERSON

The vast changes in family life—the rise of single, same-sex, and two-paycheck parents—have often been blamed for declining

morality and unhappy children. Drawing upon pioneering researchwith the children of the gender revolution, Kathleen Gerson revealsthat it is not a lack of “family values,” but rigid social and economicforces that make it difficult to live out those values. Indeed, today’ssocial and economic realities remain based on traditional—and nowobsolete—distinctions between breadwinning and caretaking. In thisequity vacuum, men and women develop conflicting strategies. Withcompassion for all perspectives, Gerson argues that these approachesare second-best responses, and they will shift if new options can becreated to help people achieve their egalitarian aspirations. TheUnfinished Revolution makes clear recommendations for the kinds ofworkplace and community changes that would best bring about amore egalitarian family life—a new flexibility at work and at homethat benefits families, encourages a thriving economy, and helpswomen and men integrate love and work.

Kathleen Gerson is Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts andScience at New York University. She frequently contributes to The New York Times,The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, and elsewhere.


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BARBARIANS AND BROTHERSAnglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865WAYNE E. LEE

The most important conflicts in the founding of the English coloniesand the American republic were fought against enemies either totally

outside of their society or within it: barbarians or brothers. In Barbariansand Brothers, historian Wayne Lee presents a searching exploration of earlymodern English and American warfare, looking at such conflicts as the sixteenth-century wars in Ireland, the English Civil War, the colonialAnglo-Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the American CivilWar. Lee discusses these conflicts through compelling campaign narratives, exploring the lives and fears of soldiers as well as the strategiesof their commanders, while showing how their collective choices determined the nature of wartime violence. In the end, the repeated experience of wars with barbarians or brothers created an American culture of war that demands absolute solutions: enemies are either to beincorporated or rejected, included or excluded. And that determinationplays a major role in defining the violence used against them. Even within such absolute goals, however, Lee points to the ways that war continued to be defined by both violence and restraint.

Wayne E. Lee is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolinaat Chapel Hill. Lee served in the U.S. Army from 1987 to 1992.

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A highly original account of gentrification in New YorkCity, filled with insightful portraits of key neighborhoodsand how they are changing on the ground

NAKED CITYThe Death and Life of Authentic Urban PlacesSHARON ZUKIN

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize whatthey regard as “authentic” urban life: aging buildings, art galleries,

small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place’sauthenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs.

But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the rapid and pervasivedemand for authenticity—evident in escalating real estate prices, expensive stores, and closely monitored urban streetscapes—has helpeddrive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authenticaura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas—Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, andthe city’s community gardens—and travels to both the city’s first IKEAstore and the World Trade Center site. She shows that for followers ofJane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed tohappen. Indeed, Naked City is a sobering update of Jacobs’ legendary1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Like Jacobs,Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but arguesthat over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood “characters” that Jacobs soevocatively idealized.

“This is scholarship with its boots on the ground, challengingus to look at the familiar in a new light.”—The Boston Globe

“A highly readable narrative...a revelation, no matter where you live.”—The Austin Chronicle

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Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CityUniversity of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of Loft Living(the classic book on SoHo’s gentrification), Landscapes of Power (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award), The Cultures of Cities, and Point of Purchase.

THE BEAUTIFUL INVISIBLECreativity, Imagination, and Theoretical PhysicsGIOVANNI VIGNALE

Challenging the image of physics as dry and dusty, The BeautifulInvisible shows that this highly abstract science is in fact teeming

with beautiful concepts, and the task of imagining them demands profound creativity, just as creative as the work of poets or magical realist novelists such as Borges and Musil. “A good scientific theory islike a symbolic tale, an allegory of reality,” writes Giovanni Vignale, ashe uncovers the unexpected links between theoretical physics and artistic creativity. In engaging and at times poetic prose, and with amplequotations from many of the writers he admires, Vignale presents hisown unorthodox accounts of fundamental theoretical concepts such asNewtonian mechanics, superconductivity, and Einstein’s theory of relativity, illuminating their profound implications. Throughout, theauthor treats readers to glimpses of physics as “exercised in the still night,when only the moon rages.” Indeed, as we delve behind now-familiarconcepts such as “electron spin” and “black hole,” the world that we takefor granted melts away, leaving a glimpse of something much stranger.

Giovanni Vignale is Curator’s Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.


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HOW LITERATURE WORKS50 Key ConceptsJOHN SUTHERLAND

Aminefield of ambiguous concepts, leaden prose, and circular definitions await anyone who wishes to tackle the terms used to

describe literature. Indeed, words like hermeneutics, heteroglossia, andmimesis more often impede than enhance one’s appreciation of a greatliterary work. Cutting through the cant, How Literature Works offers a reader-friendly, easy-to-navigate guide that will aid anyone—from the undergraduate to the general reader—who’s seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. With a series of pithy,jaunty essays, the renowned literary critic John Sutherland—widelyadmired for his wit and crystal-clear reasoning—strips away the obscu-rity and pretension associated with literature. His book offers concisedefinitions and clear examples of 50 terms and concepts that all booklovers should know. An indispensable reference tool, How LiteratureWorks will be a boon to readers of all sorts, from fans of WilliamShakespeare and Philip Roth to readers of Jane Smiley and J.K. Rowling.

John Sutherland is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern EnglishLiterature at University College London, and Professor of Literature at Caltech.


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A compelling account of a notorious murder in the“Magic City” of Birmingham—a gripping story of love,prejudice and violence in the age of Jim Crow

RISING ROADA True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in AmericaSHARON DAVIES

It was among the most notorious criminal cases of its day. On August11, 1921, in Birmingham, Alabama, a Methodist minister named

Edwin Stephenson shot and killed a Catholic priest, James Coyle, inbroad daylight and in front of numerous witnesses. The killer’s motive?The priest had married Stephenson’s eighteen-year-old daughter Ruth toPedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican migrant and practicing Catholic.

Sharon Davies’s Rising Road resurrects the murder of Father Coyleand the trial of his killer. As Davies reveals with novelistic richness,Stephenson’s crime laid bare the most potent bigotries of the age: ahatred not only of blacks, but of Catholics and “foreigners” as well. Inone of the case’s most unexpected turns, the minister hired future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black to lead his defense. Thoughregarded later in life as a civil rights champion, in 1921 Black was justmonths away from donning the robes of the Ku Klux Klan, the secretorder that financed Stephenson’s defense. Entering a plea of temporaryinsanity, Black defended the minister on claims that the Catholics hadrobbed Ruth away from her true Protestant faith, and that her PuertoRican husband was actually black.

Placing the story in social and historical context, Davies brings this heinous crime and its aftermath back to life, in a brilliant andengrossing examination of the wages of prejudice and a trial that shookthe nation at the height of Jim Crow.

“Davies takes us deep into the dark heart of the Jim CrowSouth, where she uncovers a searing story of love, faith, bigotry and violence. Rising Road is a history so powerful, so compelling it stays with you long after you’ve finished itsfinal page.”—Kevin Boyle, author of the National Book Award-winning Arc of Justice

“This gripping history...has all the makings of a Hollywoodmovie. Drama aside, Rising Road also happens to be a finework of history.”—History News Network


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Sharon Davies is the John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law at the Ohio State University.


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A provocative and beautifully illustrated exploration ofthe relationship between gay life and art

ART AND HOMOSEXUALITYA History of IdeasCHRISTOPHER REED

Lavishly illustrated with over 175 black-and-white and color imagesthat range from high to popular culture and from Ancient Greece to

contemporary America, Christopher Reed’s arresting book reveals thedeep linkages between art and homosexuality as we understand those terms.

This is the first book to fully explore the interdependence betweenthe identity of the artist and the homosexual. It offers a bold, globe-spanning narrative that draws on artwork from all the importantperiods in the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, andcontemporary, with special focus on the modern period. It was in thenineteenth century that the identities of the avant-garde artist and thehomosexual took shape, and almost as quickly overlapped.The figures involved—Ingres, Courbet, Wilde, Whitman—are among

that era’s most iconic artists. The development of twentieth-centuryart—exemplified in the work of figures like Gertrude Stein, JasperJohns, David Hockney, and David Wojnarowicz—this book argues issimply not understandable apart from the concurrent development ofideas about sexual identity. This highly readable volume challenges theideas of many prominent art critics and punctures the platitudes sur-rounding discussions of both art and sexuality. The book discusses whatit means to be an insider and outsider, how sexuality came to define one’s fundamental humanity, and what people risk (and gain) in rejecting economic and social conformity.

Reed shows that many of the core ideas that define modern thoughtmore generally are nearly indecipherable without an understanding ofthis pairing. The debates that have surrounded artists and homosexuals ineffect capture the dramatic history of the evolution of the modern mind.

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Christopher Reed is Associate Professor of English and Visual Culture atPennsylvania State University. His previous books include Not at Home: TheSuppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture and Bloomsbury Rooms:Modernism, Subculture, and Domesticity, winner of a 2005 Historians of British Art prize.

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One of the world’s leading authorities offers a penetratinglook at the nature of power in the twenty-first century

COMMUNICATION POWERMANUEL CASTELLS

Hailed by The Financial Times as “the most prominent and influential theorist and analyst of the modern communications

and network age,” Manuel Castells here offers a ground-breakingaccount of the modern communication revolution, a dramatic transfor-mation of technology—and of the signals we receive—that is changingthe way we feel, think, and behave. And that, writes Castells, is creatinga revolution in power.

With his landmark trilogy, The Information Age, Castells offered oneof the first comprehensive analyses of how the Internet was creating a networked society. Now he draws on neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and case histories from around the world to explore the psychology of decision making in the new communications environment, highlighting the rise of communication power. He rangeswidely, exploring global media deregulation, the misinformation that surrounded the invasion of Iraq, environmental movements, the role ofthe Internet in the Obama presidential campaign, and media control in Russia and China. In a network society, he writes, politics is funda-mentally media politics—and the politics of scandal is its epitome. Thatfact is behind a worldwide crisis of political legitimacy that challenges themeaning of democracy in much of the world. More fundamentally,Castells argues, the Internet’s instant messaging, social networking, and blogging have given rise to a new communication system, mass self-communication, that is profoundly altering power relationships.

Deeply researched, far-reaching in scope, and incisively argued,Communication Power offers a profound new understanding of implications of the information revolution.

“Provides a bevy of illustrious examples of how grassroots campaigns could use the internet to bring public attention toissues as diverse as climate change and the war in Iraq.”—Forbes

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Manuel Castells is Wallis Annenberg Professor of Communication Technology andSociety at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and ResearchProfessor of Information Society at the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona.He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor ofInternet Studies at the University of Oxford. He is the author of twenty-two books,including the three-volume The Information Age.

A PERFECT MORAL STORMThe Ethical Tragedy of Climate ChangeSTEPHEN M. GARDINER

Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity,but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In

The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates ourdangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely newlight, considering it as an ethical failure. Gardiner clarifies the moral situation, identifying the temptations (or “storms”) that make us vulnerable to a certain kind of corruption. First, the world’s most affluent nations are tempted to pass on the cost of climate change to thepoorer and weaker citizens of the world. Second, the present generationis tempted to pass the problem on to future generations. Third, our poorgrasp of science, international justice, and the human relationship tonature helps to facilitate inaction. As a result, we are engaging in willfulself-deception when the lives of future generations, the world’s poor, andeven the basic fabric of life on the planet is at stake. We should wake upto this profound ethical failure, Gardiner concludes, and demand moreof our institutions, our leaders, and ourselves.

Stephen M. Gardiner is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy andthe Program on Values in Society, University of Washington, Seattle.


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NO SURE VICTORYMeasuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam WarGREGORY A. DADDIS

It is commonly thought that the U.S. Army in Vietnam, thrust into awar in which territory occupied was meaningless, depended on body

counts as its sole measure of military progress. In No Sure Victory, Armyofficer and historian Gregory A. Daddis uncovers the truth behind this gross simplification of the historical record. Daddis shows that, confronted by an unfamiliar enemy and an even more unfamiliar form ofwarfare, the U.S. Army adopted a massive, and eventually unmanageable,system of measurements and formulas to track the progress of militaryoperations that ranged from pacification efforts to search-and-destroy missions. Concentrating more on data collection and less on data analysis,these indiscriminate attempts to gauge success may actually have hinderedthe army’s ability to evaluate the true outcome of the fight at hand—aroadblock that Daddis believes significantly contributed to the multitudeof failures that American forces in Vietnam faced. Filled with incisiveanalysis and rich historical detail, No Sure Victory is a valuable case studyin unconventional warfare, a cautionary tale that offers important perspectives on how to measure performance in current and future armed conflict.

Gregory A. Daddis is Academy Professor of History at the United States MilitaryAcademy, West Point, and a Colonel in the U.S. Army.

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“A consistently provocative case for the innate connectionbetween science and art.”—Scientific American

THE ARTFUL UNIVERSEEXPANDEDSecond EditionJOHN BARROW

Our love of art, writes John Barrow, is the end product of millions of years of evolution. How we react to a beautiful painting or

symphony draws upon instincts laid down long before humans existed.Now, in this enhanced edition of the highly popular The Artful Universe,Barrow further explores the close ties between our aesthetic appreciationand the basic nature of the Universe.

Barrow argues that the laws of the Universe have imprinted themselves upon our thoughts and actions in subtle and unexpectedways. Why do we like certain types of art or music? What games andpuzzles do we find challenging? Why do so many myths and legendshave common elements? In this eclectic and entertaining survey, Barrowanswers these questions and more as he explains how the landscape of the Universe has influenced the development of philosophy andmythology, and how millions of years of evolutionary history have fashioned our attraction to certain patterns of sound and color. This second edition features eight fascinating new sections covering such topics as the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets, the fashionable postmodernist rejection of science, and the discovery of the underlyingmathematical structure of Jackson Pollock’s work.

Drawing on a wide variety of examples, from the theological ques-tions raised by St. Augustine and C.S. Lewis to the relationship betweenthe pure math of Pythagoras and the music of the Beatles, The ArtfulUniverse Expanded covers new ground and enters a wide-ranging debateabout the meaning and significance of the links between art and science.

“Traverses an enormous range of material, treating the reader toextended riffs on everything from non-Euclidean geometry toStravinsky’s theories on music.”—The New York Times

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John Barrow is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University ofCambridge. Hailed as “the Stephen Jay Gould of the mathematical sciences” (SirMartin Rees), he is the author of 15 popular science books, including Pi in the Sky,Theories of Everything, The Origin of the Universe, and The Anthropic CosmologicalPrinciple (with Frank Tipler). He is the winner of the 2006 Templeton Prize.

WHO NEEDS CLASSICAL MUSIC?Cultural Choice and Musical ValueJULIAN JOHNSON

Praised in The Economist as “heartfelt and finely reasoned. . .wise, perceptive and inspiring,” Who Needs Classical Music? offers a fresh

and balanced defense of the value of classical music in contemporary culture. Challenging the many cultural critics who contend that the division between “high” and “low” art is an artificial one, thatBeethoven’s Ninth and “Blue Suede Shoes” are equally valuable, JulianJohnson counters that music is more than just “a matter of taste.” Musiccan provide entertainment or simply serve as background noise. Classicalmusic, he suggests, is shaped by its claim to function as art. It is distinguished by a self-conscious attention to its own materials and theirformal patterning. Far from being irrelevant today, Johnson argues, classical music continues to offer rich and engaging insights into ourexperience of modern life. The paperback edition includes a new prefacefrom the author, bringing his argument up to date. Who Needs ClassicalMusic? will stimulate readers to reflect on their own investment (or lackof it) in music and art of all kinds.

Julian Johnson is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. Hewas awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association for “outstandingcontributions to musicology.”


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RAVISHED BY BEAUTYThe Surprising Legacy of Reformed SpiritualityBELDEN C. LANE

Belden Lane weaves autobiographical essays that illuminate his ownexperience of nature into a “green theology” drawn from the

unexpected resources of Reformed Christian spirituality. He offers a surprising new portrait of the Reformed tradition, revealing a Calvinwho spoke of himself as “ravished” by the earth’s beauty and a JonathanEdwards who urged a sensuous enjoyment of God’s beauty as the onlyreal way of knowing God. Lane explores the apparent paradox ofReformed spirituality, arguing that Calvinists who may seem prudishand proper are in fact a people of passionate desire. Reformed Christianswho appear totally focused on divine transcendence turn out to be closet nature mystics, exulting in God’s glory everywhere. Lane warnsthat holy longing can be redirected from the contemplation of God’ssplendor in the earth’s beauty to a craving for the land itself, leading tomisuse of natural resources. But he persuasively argues the relevance ofthe Reformed tradition to contemporary ecological issues such as speciesdiversity and the honoring of an earth community.

Belden C. Lane is Professor of Theological Studies, American Religion, andHistory of Spirituality at Saint Louis University and the author of The Solace ofFierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality.

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“Everything you might like to know about numbers andthe brain, as filtered through the lively and engagingbrain of Stanislas Dehaene.”—Discover Magazine

THE NUMBER SENSEHow the Mind Creates MathematicsRevised and Expanded EditionSTANISLAS DEHAENE

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematicalcalculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been

many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in TheNumber Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recentresearch, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind.Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals—includingrats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees—can perform simple mathe-matical calculations, and that human infants also have a rudimentarynumber sense. Dehaene suggests that this rudimentary number sense is asbasic to the way the brain understands the world as our perception ofcolor or of objects in space, and, like these other abilities, our numbersense is wired into the brain. These are but a few of the wealth of fascinating observations contained here. We also discover, for example,that because Chinese names for numbers are so short, Chinese people canremember up to nine or ten digits at a time—English-speaking peoplecan only remember seven. The book also explores the unique abilities ofidiot savants and mathematical geniuses, and we meet people whoseminute brain lesions render their mathematical ability useless.This new and completely updated edition includes all of the most recentscientific data on how numbers are encoded by single neurons, and which brain areas activate when we perform calculations. Perhaps mostimportant, The Number Sense reaches many provocative conclusions thatwill intrigue anyone interested in learning, mathematics, or the mind.

“A delight.”—Ian Stewart, New Scientist

“Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters asvarying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why JeanPiaget’s theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Dehaene weaves the latest technical research into a remarkablylucid and engrossing investigation. Even readers normallyindifferent to mathematics will find themselves marveling atthe wonder of minds making numbers.”—Booklist

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Stanislas Dehaene teaches at the College de France and is Director of theCognitive Neuroimaging Research Unit at INSERM.

THE GLOBAL LINCOLNEdited by RICHARD CARWARDINE and JAY SEXTON

More than any other American historical figure, Abraham Lincoln towers over the global landscape, a leader who spoke—and contin-

ues to speak—to people around the world. The Global Lincoln tells theunknown and remarkable story of this great president’s worldwide legacy.Edited by acclaimed Lincoln biographer Richard Carwardine and JaySexton, this fascinating volume brings together leading historians fromaround the globe—including such writers as Harold Holzer, Kenneth O.Morgan, and David W. Blight—to explore the image and influence ofLincoln in places ranging from Germany to Japan, India to Ireland, Africaand Argentina to the American South. The contributors show that theheart of Lincoln’s global celebrity lies in his status as the archetypal self-made man, his record of successful leadership in wartime, his role as the“Great Emancipator,” and his resolute defense of popular government. Yet “Lincoln” has also been a malleable and protean figure, one who is forever being redefined to meet the needs of those who invoke him, fromMarx and Tolstoy to soldiers fighting in the “Lincoln Brigades.”

Richard Carwardine is President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University,and author of Lincoln: A Life of Power and Purpose. Jay Sexton is UniversityLecturer in American History at Oxford University, and author of The MonroeDoctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America.


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LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORDFLORA THOMPSONIntroduction by PHILLIP MALLETT

The inspiration for a popular television series that aired on PBS in2009, Lark Rise to Candleford is Flora Thompson’s classic evocation

of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture. The trilogy of Lark Rise, Over to Candleford, and Candleford Green tells thestory of Thompson’s childhood and youth during the 1880s in LarkRise—in reality Juniper Hill, the hamlet in Oxfordshire where she wasborn. Through the eyes of Laura, the author’s fictional counterpart,Thompson describes the cottages, characters, and way of life of the agricultural laborers and their families with whom she grew up—seasonal celebrations, schooling, church-going, entertainment, andstory-telling are described in fond and vivid detail. This new edition ofthe trilogy, the only hardback edition in print, boasts an attractive format complete with ribbon marker and the original wood-engravingsby Julie Neild. The edition includes a new introduction by PhillipMallett, which looks at the background to the books and their enduringpopularity, plus a useful select bibliography and a chronology of FloraThompson’s life and publications.

Phillip Mallett is Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews.

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MARTYRS AND MURDERERSThe Guise Family and the Making of EuropeSTUART CARROLL

Hailed as “entertaining” and “nuanced” by The Economist, Martyrsand Murderers tells the story of three generations of treacherous,

bloodthirsty power-brokers. One of the richest and most powerful families in sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise played a pivotalrole in the history of Europe. Among the staunchest opponents of theReformation, they whipped up religious bigotry throughout France.They overthrew the king, ruled Scotland for nearly 20 years throughMary Queen of Scots, plotted to invade England and overthrowElizabeth I, and ended the century by unleashing the bloody Wars ofReligion, before succumbing in a counter-revolution that made themmartyrs for the Catholic cause. The history of the Guise family is sensational but true. Though parts of the story are familiar—such astheir crucial role in the murder of 4,000 Protestants in the infamousMassacre of Saint Bartholomew—the full scope of their influence hasnever before been told. Stuart Carroll unravels the legends about thiscultivated, charismatic, and violent dynasty, and challenges traditionalassumptions about one of Europe’s most turbulent eras.

Stuart Carroll is Professor of History at the University of York.

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BREEDINGThe Human History of Heredity, Race, and SexJOHN WALLER

In Breeding, John Waller offers an intriguing look at human heredityand the often troubling conclusions different societies have drawn

about it. The questions heredity provokes are legion. If characteristics arepassed from parent to child, does this mean that some families are superior to others? That some races are less than fully human? That individuals can shrug off responsibility for what they do? To answer thesequestions, the book explores a dizzying array of topics—the Greek andRoman view of sub-human “barbarians”; the suppression of peasants inmedieval Europe, and of slaves in the American plantations; ideas of class,criminality, “moral weakness,” and IQ; pedigree; “bloodlines” in royalty;and much more. At the same time, it is a story of remarkable scientificachievement, as figures from Linnaeus to Mendel, Darwin, Galton, Crickand Watson have unraveled the way life works. From the speculations ofthe ancient, medieval and early modern worlds to the birth of genetics inthe last century, Waller offers a fascinating account of one of the mostimportant ideas in Western thought.

John Waller is Associate Professor of the History of Medicine at Michigan State University.

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UNION PACIFICThe Reconfiguration: America’s Greatest Railroad from1969 to the PresentMAURY KLEIN

Praised by the Chicago Tribune as “thoroughly and compellinglydetailed history,” Volumes I and II of Maury Klein’s monumental

history of the Union Pacific Railroad covered the years from 1863-1969.Now the third and final volume brings the story of the Union Pacific—the oldest, largest, and most successful railroad of modern times—fullyup to date.

The book follows the trajectory of an icon of the industrial age trying to negotiate its way in a post-railway world, plagued by setbackssuch as labor disputes, aging infrastructure, government de-regulation,ill-fated mergers, and more. By 1969 the same company that a centuryearlier had triumphantly driven the golden spike into PromontorySummit—to immortalize the nation’s first transcontinental railway—seemed a dinosaur destined for financial ruin. But as Klein shows, theUnion Pacific not only survived but is once more thriving, which provesthat railways remain critical to commerce and industry in America, evenas passenger train travel has all but disappeared. Drawing on interviewswith Union Pacific personnel past and present, Klein takes readers insidethe great railroad—into its boardrooms and along its tracks—to showhow the company adapted to the rapidly changing world of moderntransportation. The book also offers fascinating portraits of the men whohave run the railroad. The challenges they faced, and the strategies they developed to meet them, give readers a rare glimpse into the innerworkings of one of America’s great companies.

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Acclaimed Yeats biographer Roy Foster explores the traditions and literary predecessors that influencedIreland’s greatest poet

WORDS ALONEYeats and His InheritancesROY FOSTER

Roy Foster’s two-volume biography of Yeats was hailed in the NewYork Review of Books as “a triumph of scholarship, thought, and

empathy such as one would hardly have thought possible in this age ofdisillusion.” Now, Foster turns his focus to the largely unacknowledgedinfluences that shaped the young W. B. Yeats.

So dramatic and revolutionary was Yeats’ impact on Irish literaturethat the writers and traditions that preceded him are often overlooked,just as his successors are often overshadowed by his achievement. InWords Alone, Roy Foster explores the Irish literary traditions that preceded Yeats, including romantic “national tales” in post-UnionIreland and Scotland, the nationalist poetry and polemic of the YoungIreland movement, the occult and supernatural fictions of SheridanLeFanu, the “peasant fictions” of William Carleton, and the fairy-loreand folktale collections Yeats absorbed. As well as placing these nineteenth-century literary movements in a rich contemporary contextof politics, polemic, and social tension, Foster discusses recent criticaland interpretive approaches to these phenomena. But the unifyingtheme throughout the book is the self-conscious use Yeats made of hisliterary predecessors during his own apprenticeship, particularly in theconstruction of his path-breaking early work. T. S. Eliot famouslyobserved that Yeats was “part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without him,” and Foster shows the many waysthat Yeats both shaped and was shaped by the age in which he lived,despite his attempts to construct his own literary pedigree and presenthimself as entirely original.

Returning to the rich seed-bed of nineteenth-century Irish writing,Words Alone draws out themes which had particular resonance for Yeats,offering a new interpretation of the influences surrounding the youngpoet as he began to “hammer his thoughts into a unity.”

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CHANGED FOR GOODA Feminist History of the Broadway MusicalSTACY WOLF

From Maria in “West Side Story” to Tracy Turnblatt in “Hairspray”and Elphaba in “Wicked,” female characters in Broadway musicals

have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In thislively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theater—performers, creators, and characters—from the start of the coldwar to the present day, creating a new, feminist history of the genre,which finds often overlooked moments of empowerment for femaleaudience members. Moving from decade to decade, Wolf first highlightsthe assumptions that circulated about gender and sexuality at the time,and then looks at the leading musicals, stressing the key aspects of theplays as they relate to women. The musicals discussed here are amongthe most beloved in the canon—“West Side Story,” “Guys & Dolls,”“Cabaret,” “Phantom of the Opera,” and many others—with specialemphasis on the blockbuster “Wicked.” Along the way, Wolf demonstrates how the musical since the mid-1940s has actually beendominated by women—women onstage, women in the wings, andwomen offstage as spectators and fans.

Stacy Wolf is Associate Professor in Theater and Director of the Princeton Atelier,Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University.


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Does heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in?Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and

many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no othertopic captures the popular imagination quite like heaven. In this book,Gary Scott Smith looks at heaven through an American lens, tracing the history of heaven in the American imagination from the Puritans to thepresent. Concepts of heaven, he argues, are ever-changing, constantlyadapting to the spirit of the age. In the colonial era, heaven focused primarily on the glory of God. For the Victorians, heaven was a warmcomfortable home where people would live forever with their family and friends. Today, heaven has less Christian identity; many see it as acelestial entertainment center or a paradise where everyone can reachtheir full potential. Drawing on an astounding array of sources, including works of art, music, sociology, psychology, folklore, liturgy,sermons, poetry, fiction, and devotional books, Smith paints a sweeping,provocative portrait of what Americans—from Jonathan Edwards toMitch Albom—have thought about heaven.

Gary Scott Smith is Professor of History at Grove City College, in Pennsylvania.He is the author, most recently, of Faith and the Presidency: From George Washingtonto George W. Bush.

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HABITS OF CHANGEAn Oral History of American NunsCAROLE GARIBALDI ROGERS

Acollection of extraordinary oral histories of American nuns, Habitsof Change captures the experiences of women whose lives over the

past fifty years have been marked by dramatic transformation. Bringingtogether women from more than 40 different religious communities,most of whom entered religious life before Vatican II, the book showshow their lives were suddenly turned around in the 1960s—perhapsmore so than any other group of contemporary women. Here thesewomen speak of their active engagement in the events that disruptedtheir church and society and of the lives they lead today, offering theirunique perspective on issues such as peace activism, global equality forwomen, and the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The interviewees include aMaryknoll missionary who spent decades in Africa, most recently in theCongo; an inner-city art teacher whose own paintings reflect the vibran-cy of Haiti; a recovering alcoholic who at age 71 has embarked on herfourth ministry; a life-long nurse, educator, and hospital administrator;and an outspoken advocate for the gay and lesbian community. Toldwith simplicity, honesty, and passion, their stories deserve to be heard.

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PHILOSOPHERSPhotographs by STEVE PYKE

Steve Pyke, a photographer whose work is a regular feature of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, is known for his stunning portraits of

prominent authors, artists, actors, and intellectuals. In this riveting collection, which he has been working on for twenty-five years, Pykepresents 100 black-and-white portraits of contemporary philosophers,photographed in his distinctive style. The effect of his technique can bestartling but always revealing, showing insight into personality whileshedding new light on the philosophical temperament. These fascinating portraits feature virtually every major philosopher workingin the West, including Anthony Appiah, David Chalmers, RogerScruton, Ruth Marcus, Richard Rorty, Peter Singer, and Umberto Eco,among others. The facing page of each portrait contains a brief piecewritten by the subject on the nature of philosophy and their place in it.For this volume, Arthur C. Danto has written a foreword and JasonStanley has interviewed Pyke. Both a who’s who of philosophy today anda stunning gallery of captivating images, this marvelous volume is thelong-awaited sequel to Pyke’s original collection, published in 1993.

Steve Pyke has worked for many of the world’s leading magazines, has publishedeight books, and has exhibited his photographs widely in Europe and the USA.

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HEAVEN ON EARTHThe Varieties of the Millennial ExperienceRICHARD LANDES

Millennialists through the ages have looked forward to the apocalypticmoment that will radically transform society into heaven on earth.

They have promised both the impending annihilation to the forces of eviland the advent of a perfect society. And all their promises have invariablyfailed. We tend, therefore, to dismiss these prophets of doom and salvationas crackpots and madmen, and not surprisingly historians of our secular erahave tended to underestimate their impact on our modern world. Now,Richard Landes offers a lucid and ground-breaking analysis of this widelymisunderstood phenomenon. This long-awaited study shows that manyevents typically regarded as secular—including the French Revolution,Marxism, Bolshevism, Nazism—not only contain key millennialist elements, but follow the apocalyptic curve of enthusiastic launch, disappointment, and re-entry into “normal time.” Ranging from ancientEgypt to modern-day UFO cults and global Jihad, Heaven on Earthboth delivers an eye-opening revisionist argument for the significance ofmillennialism throughout history and alerts the reader to the alarmingspread of these ideologies in our world today.

Richard Landes is Associate Professor of History and directed the Center forMillennial Studies at Boston University.

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AMERICA’S CHURCHThe National Shrine and Catholic Presence in the Nation’s CapitalTHOMAS A. TWEED

The National Shrine in Washington, DC has been deeply loved, blithely ignored, and passionately criticized. It has been praised as a

“dazzling jewel” and dismissed as a “towering Byzantine beach ball.” In thisintriguing and inventive book, Thomas Tweed shows that the Shrine isalso an illuminating site from which to tell the story of twentieth-century Catholicism. He organizes his narrative around six themes thatcharacterize U.S. Catholicism, and he ties these themes to the Shrine’smaterial culture—to images, artifacts, or devotional spaces. Thus hebegins with the Basilica’s foundation stone, weaving it into a discussion of“brick and mortar” Catholicism, the drive to build institutions. To highlight the Church’s inclination to appeal to women, he looks atfund-raising for the Mary Memorial Altar, and he focuses on the Filipinooratory to Our Lady of Antipolo to illustrate the Church’s outreach toimmigrants. Throughout, he employs painstaking detective work to shinea light on the many facets of American Catholicism reflected in the shrine.

Thomas A. Tweed is Shive, Lindsay, and Gray Professor of Religious Studies at theUniversity of Texas, Austin.

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The leading usage guide for all legal writers, fullyrevamped and expanded with hundreds of new entriesand thousands of new illustrative quotations

GARNER’S DICTIONARY OFLEGAL USAGEThird EditionBRYAN A. GARNER

Universally acclaimed as the best guide available for anyone writing aboutthe law, Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage provides authoritative

guidance on all the vexing questions that legal writers face, from correcting grammatical errors to framing legal issues to distinguishingbetween similar but distinct legal terms. The topics are alphabeticallyarranged for ease of reference: simply look up any phrase or grammaticalcategory you’re interested in, and you’re likely to find the final word on thesubject.

For this new Third Edition, Garner has updated entries throughout,added hundreds of new entries and thousands of new illustrative quotations from judicial opinions and leading law books, revised theselected bibliography, and expanded and updated cross-references toguide readers quickly and easily. A new preface introduces the reader tothis edition and highlights content that has been newly incorporated.

With this edition, Garner reaffirms his position as the foremostexpert on legal usage and style. His guide remains the essential resourcefor practicing lawyers and legal scholars, functioning as both a styleguide and a law dictionary, guiding writers to distinguish between trueterms of law and mere jargon, and illustrating recommended forms ofexpression. There is no better resource for approaching legal writing in alogical, clear, and error-free way.

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N A T U R E ’ S P A T T E R N S : A T A P E S T R Y I N T H R E E P A R T S

Patterns are everywhere in nature—in the ranks of clouds in the sky, the stripes of an angelfish, the arrangement of petals in flowers. Wheredoes this order and regularity come from? As Philip Ball reveals in Nature’s Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts, this order creates itself. Thepatterns we see come from self-organization. Indeed, scientists have found that there is a pattern-forming tendency inherent in the basicstructure and processes of nature, whether living or non-living, so that from a few simple themes, and the repetition of simple rules, endlessbeautiful variations can arise.


SHAPESFrom soap bubbles to honeycombs, delicate shellpatterns, and even the developing body parts ofa complex animal like ourselves, Shapes uncoverspatterns in growth and form in all corners of thenatural world, explains how these patterns areself-made, and describes why similar shapes and structures may be found in very differentsettings, orchestrated by nothing more than simple physical forces. This book will make youlook at the world with fresh eyes, seeing orderand form in places you’d least expect.

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FLOWThis book explores the elusive rules that governflow—the science of chaotic behavior. From theswirl of a wisp of smoke to the huge persistentstorm system that is the Great Spot on Jupiter,Ball explains the mechanisms at play wheneverthings flow, and how these give rise to many ofthe patterns we recognize in Nature—from ripples on a beach to swirling galaxies. The book describes fascinating phenomena such as turbulence, which still defies complete scientific understanding.


BRANCHESThis final book in the trilogy explores the formation and growth of branching networks inthe natural world, including trees, river deltas,blood vessels, lightning, the cracks that form inthe glazing of pots, and much more. These networks share a peculiar geometry, Ball shows,striking a compromise between disorder anddeterminism, though some, like the hexagonalsnowflake or the stones of the Devil’s Causewayfall into a rigidly ordered structure.


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One of America’s most stylish essayists turns his penetrating gaze on such unpredictable subjects asAphorisms, Dueling, the Night, and the 1960s

EXCEPT WHEN I WRITEReflections of a Recovering CriticARTHUR KRYSTAL

Writing of Arthur Krystal’s Agitations Morris Dickstein noted that,“Whether he is writing literary essays that wear their learning

lightly or familiar essays that breathe the spirit of Montaigne andHazlitt, Arthur Krystal’s work is a pleasure to read.” An opinion sharedby Dana Gioia, the former Chairman of the National Endowment forthe Arts, who described Krystal’s The Half-Life of an American Essayist as“a superb book, winning the rare literary trifecta of being well-written,well-reasoned, and well-researched. [The essays] are not only a pleasureto read one by one—they are a pleasure to read paragraph by paragraph.”

In Except When I Write, whose title piece is included in the BestAmerican Essays of 2010, Krystal continues to shore up his chosen genre.In prose that is elegant, entertaining, and adroit, he offers distinctiveviews on such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, William Hazlitt, JacquesBarzun, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The book concludes with a charmingcapstone essay concerning his own gravitation toward the essay form. IfKrystal has one rule for writing, it is a line that Hazlitt overheard on thestreet and took to heart: “Confound it, man, don’t be insipid.” No fearof that. As Library Journal and other publications have noticed, Krystalhas a seeming “inability to pull any punches.”

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SIBLINGSBrothers and Sisters in American HistoryC. DALLETT HEMPHILL

Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of

sibling relations in America. Illuminating the evolution of the modernfamily system, Siblings shows how brothers and sisters have helped eachother in the face of the dramatic political, economic, and culturalchanges of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book illustrateshow, in colonial America, sibling relations offered an egalitarian space tosoften the challenges of the larger patriarchal family and society, whereas after the Revolution, in antebellum America, sibling relationsprovided order and authority in a more democratic nation. As Hemphilldemonstrates, siblings function across all races as humanity’s shock-absorbers, as well as valued kin and keepers of memory. Thiswide-ranging book offers a new understanding of the relationshipbetween families and history in an evolving world and a timely reminderof the role our siblings play in our own lives.

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FIGHTING CHANCEThe Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage inReconstruction AmericaFAYE E. DUDDEN

The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitterfalling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady

Stanton opposed the 15th Amendment for granting black men the rightto vote but not women. How did these two causes, so long allied, cometo this? In a lively narrative of insider politics, betrayal, deception, andpersonal conflict, Fighting Chance offers fresh answers to this questionand reveals that racism was not the only cause, but that the outcome alsodepended heavily on money and political maneuver. Historian FayeDudden shows that Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, believing they hada fighting chance to win woman suffrage after the Civil War, tried butfailed to exploit windows of political opportunity, especially in Kansas.When they became most desperate, they succeeded only in selling outtheir long-held commitment to black rights and their invaluable friendship and alliance with Frederick Douglass. Based on extensiveresearch, Fighting Chance is a major contribution to women’s history andto 19th-century political history.

Faye E. Dudden is Professor of History at Colgate University.

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A social and cultural history of the mobilization forWorld War II, when the central focus of governmentshifted from welfare to warfare

WARFARE STATEWorld War II Americans and the Age of Big GovernmentJAMES T. SPARROW

Although common wisdom and much scholarship assume that “big government” gained its foothold in the United States under the

auspices of the New Deal during the Great Depression, in fact it wasWorld War II that accomplished this feat. Indeed, as the federal government mobilized for war, it grew tenfold, quickly dwarfing the NewDeal’s welfare programs.

Warfare State shows how the federal government, in the course ofWorld War II, vastly expanded its influence over American society.Equally important, it looks at how and why Americans adapted to thisexpansion of authority. Through mass participation in military service,war work, rationing, price control, income taxation and ownership ofthe national debt in the form of war bonds, ordinary Americans learnedto live with the warfare state. They accepted these new obligationsbecause the government encouraged all citizens to think of themselves aspersonally connected to the battle front, and to imagine the impact oftheir every action on the combat soldier. By working for the AmericanSoldier, they habituated themselves to the authority of the government.Citizens made their own counter-claims on the state—particularly in thecase of industrial workers, women, African Americans, and most of all,the soldiers. Their demands for fuller citizenship offer important insightsinto the relationship between citizen morale, the uses of patriotism, andthe legitimacy of the state in wartime.

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BENEATH THE AMERICANRENAISSANCEThe Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and MelvilleDAVID S. REYNOLDS

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as “impressively informedand heroic” and in The Economist as “richly suggestive,” the

award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work onAmerican literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of ourmost important literary period, as first identified by F. O. Matthiessen’sAmerican Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight,engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here themajor works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville,and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print in anaffordable paperback edition, the volume includes a new foreword byprominent historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book’s impact andinfluence. An exquisite jewel of criticism and cultural history, Beneath theAmerican Renaissance is certain to find an appreciative new readership.

David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies atthe Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the winner of theBancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Ambassador Book Award, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.


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RENÉ BLUM AND THE BALLETS RUSSESIn Search of a Lost LifeJUDITH CHAZIN-BENNAHUM

This pathfinding biography of a fascinating cultural hero, René Blumand the Ballets Russes uncovers the enigmatic and brilliant writer and

producer whose life ended in the Holocaust. Brother of Léon Blum, thefirst socialist prime minister of France, René Blum was a passionate andprominent littérateur. He was also the editor of the chic literary journalGil Blas where he met such celebrated figures as Claude Debussy, PierreBonnard, Edouard Vuillard, André Gide, and Paul Valéry. As a youngman of letters, Blum arranged for the publication of Proust’s Swann’s Way.When Diaghilev died, Blum resurrected the Ballets Russes de MonteCarlo. Tragically, he was arrested in 1941 during a roundup of Jewishintellectuals and ultimately sent to Auschwitz. Based on a treasure troveof previously undiscovered letters and documents, this narrative not onlytells the poignant story of Blum’s life but also illustrates Blum’s role in thedevelopment of dance in the United States. Indeed, Blum’s efforts to savehis ballet company eventually helped to bring many of the world’s great-est dancers and choreographers—among them Fokine, Balanchine, andNijinska—to American ballet stages.

Judith Chazin-Bennahum, former ballet dancer, is Distinguished ProfessorEmerita of Theatre and Dance at the University of New Mexico.

J U L Y 2 0 1 1Dance304 pp., 62 photographs, 61⁄8 x 91⁄4

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The complex, untold story of Jews in black baseball andhow they helped integrate the sport

OUT OF LEFT FIELDJews and Black BaseballREBECCA T. ALPERT

Here is an eye-opening look at one of baseball’s most intriguing andlittle known stories: the many-faceted relationship between Jews

and black baseball in Jim Crow America.In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports

entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews called theBelleville Grays—the only Jewish team in the history of black baseball—made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues. Throughin-depth research, Alpert tells the stories of the Jewish businessmen whoowned and promoted teams as they both acted out and fell victim to pervasive stereotypes of Jews as greedy middlemen and hucksters. SomeJewish owners produced a kind of comedy baseball, akin to basketball’sHarlem Globetrotters—indeed, Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein wasvery active in black baseball—that reaped financial benefits for bothowners and players but also played upon the worst stereotypes of AfricanAmericans and prevented these black “showmen” from being taken seriously by the major leagues. But Alpert also shows how Jewish entrepreneurs, motivated in part by the traditional Jewish commitmentto social justice, helped grow the business of black baseball in the face ofthe oppressive Jim Crow restrictions, and how radical journalists writingfor the Communist Daily Worker argued passionately for an end to baseball’s segregation. In fact, the campaign to convince manager BranchRickey to integrate the Brooklyn Dodgers was initiated by Daily Workersports writer Bill Mardo, in an open letter in the paper.

Deftly written and meticulously researched, Out of Left Field offers aunique perspective on the economic and social negotiations betweenblacks and Jews in the first half of the 20th century, shedding new lighton the intersection of race, religion, and sports in America.

J U L Y 2 0 1 1Religion/American History

272 pp., 24 illus., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4

978-0-19-539900-4$27.95(01), hardback

Rebecca Alpert is Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s Studies at TempleUniversity and the author of Whose Torah?: A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism.

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A sobering look at America’s obsession with physicalbeauty and the toll this obsession takes particularly on women

THE BEAUTY BIASThe Injustice of Appearance in Life and LawDEBORAH L. RHODE

Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absencego much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be hired and

promoted, and are assumed less likely to have desirable traits, such asgoodness, kindness, and honesty. Three quarters of women considerappearance important to their self image and over a third rank it as themost important factor. Our annual global investment in appearance totalsclose to $200 billion.

The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractive-ness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Deborah Rhodedescribes the social, biological, market, and media forces that have contributed to appearance-related problems, as well as feminism’s difficulties in confronting them. The book also reveals why it matters.Appearance-related bias infringes on fundamental rights, compromisesmerit principles, reinforces debilitating stereotypes, and compounds thedisadvantages of race, class, and gender. Yet only one state and a halfdozen localities explicitly prohibit such discrimination. The Beauty Biasprovides the first systematic survey of how appearance laws work in practice, and a compelling argument for extending their reach. The bookalso offers case histories of invidious discrimination and presents a plausible legal and political strategy for addressing them.

“Provocative. Rhode is at her most persuasive when arguing that in the United States, the penchant to discriminate againstunattractive women (and also short men) is as pernicious andwidespread as bias based on race, sex, age, ethnicity, religion,and disability. She provides overwhelming evidence of biasagainst the overweight, the unattractive, and the aging.”—Dahlia Lithwick, Newsweek

“This is a well-researched and thoughtful exploration of beautyideals in legal, professional and other hard-hitting real-lifespheres. A serious contribution to the literature of the politicsof appearance.”—Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth

J U L Y 2 0 1 1Social Issues / Law

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Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at StanfordUniversity, and is the author of numerous books, including In the Interests of Justice,Access to Justice, and Ethics in Practice.


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A timely, scathing critique of the expanded role of administrators at U.S. universities—and their manipulative efforts to bureaucratize academic life

THE FALL OF THE FACULTYThe Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It MattersBENJAMIN GINSBERG

As recently as the 1970s, America’s universities were mainly led by fac-ulty ideas and concerns. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this

eye-opening, controversial book, “deanlets”—administrators and staffersoften without serious academic backgrounds or experience—are settingthe educational agenda, depriving faculty of their institutional power.

The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant administrativeblight, which impacts the vast majority of the nation’s universities. Thebook explains how layers of administrators and staffers are added to university payrolls every year, despite the claim that schools are facingbudget shortfalls that force them to lay off full-time faculty. In a furtherirony, many newly minted administrators are career managers with nofaculty experience, and they often downplay the importance of teachingand research, as seen by their tireless advocacy for a “life skills” curriculum. Consequently, students are denied a more enriching educational experience—one defined by intellectual rigor and new waysof thinking. In no-nonsense prose, Ginsberg also reveals how legitimategrievances of minority groups and liberal activists, which were traditionally championed by faculty members, have, in the hands ofadministrators, been reduced to chess pieces in a game of power politics.By embracing initiatives such as affirmative action, the administrationgained favor with these groups and legitimized a thinly cloaked gambit tobolster their power over the faculty. Ginsberg also shows that eliminating the tenure system, which some misguided critics see as a wayto improve higher education, would have the effect of destroying the faculty and handing over the university to its often inept deanlets. AsChurchill said about democracy, tenure is the worst system except for allthe others.

As troubling as this trend has become, there are ways to reverse it.Designed to be at the center of the debate on the future of the university, The Fall of the Faculty outlines how we can revamp the systemso that real educators can regain their voice in curriculum policy.

A U G U S T 2 0 1 1Education

272 pp., 8 b/w illus., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4

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Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Government Program of Advanced Academic Programs at Johns Hopkins University.

THE SLAVE TRADE AND THEORIGINS OF INTERNATIONALHUMAN RIGHTS LAWJENNY S. MARTINEZ

As Jenny Martinez shows in this groundbreaking new book, the international human rights law that we know today is not solely a

post-World War II development, as most scholars claim, but rather hasroots in one of the nineteenth century’s central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade. Martinez focuses in particular on international courts for the suppression of the slave trade.The courts, which were created by treaties and based in the Caribbean,West Africa, Cape Town, and Brazil, helped free more than 80,000Africans from captured slave ships between 1807 and 1871. Here then,buried in the dusty archives of admiralty courts, ships’ logs, and the British foreign office, Martinez uncovers the foundations of contemporary human rights law: international courts exercising jurisdiction over “crimes against humanity” long before the Nurembergtrials. Fueled by a powerful thesis and drawing on novel evidence,Martinez’s work will reshape the fields of human rights history and international human rights law.

Jenny S. Martinez is Professor of Law and Justin M. Roach, Jr., Faculty Scholar atStanford Law School.


A U G U S T 2 0 1 1World History/Law288 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4

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MEXICO IN WORLD HISTORYWILLIAM H. BEEZLEY

Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recentstudies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley

provides a dramatic narrative of human events as he recounts the storyof Mexico in the context of world history. Beginning with the Mayanand Aztec civilizations and their brutal defeat at the hands of the Conquistadors, Beezley highlights the penetrating effect of Spain’sthree-hundred-year colonial rule, during which Mexico became a multicultural society marked by Roman Catholicism and the Spanishlanguage. Independence, he shows, was likewise marked by foreigninvasions and huge territorial losses, this time at the hands of the UnitedStates, who annexed a vast land mass—including the states of Texas,New Mexico, and California—and remained a powerful presence alongthe border. The 1910 revolution propelled land, educational, and public health reforms, but later governments turned to authoritarianrule, personal profits, and marginalization of rural, indigenous, and poorMexicans. Throughout this eventful chronicle, Beezley highlights the people and international forces that shaped Mexico’s rich and tumultuous history.

William H. Beezley is Professor of History at the University of Arizona and co-editor of The Oxford History of Mexico.


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RADIOACTIVITYA History of a Mysterious ScienceMARJORIE MALLEY

Radioactivity burst into the world without warning. No precursorsforeshadowed it, and nothing in nineteenth century physics could

have predicted it. In this vividly written and informative volume,Marjorie Malley presents a full history of radioactivity, the first book ofthis scope to focus exclusively on this once mysterious phenomenon.Malley captures the puzzlement and suspense of radioactivity’s pioneers,leading the reader through the twists and turns, surprises and dead endswhich researchers experienced as they pursued their goal of understandingthis strange discovery. The book shows how research into new radiationsrevolutionized ideas about the atom and the elements and how scientistsworking in the late 1930s discovered fission, which would lead ultimatelyto the atomic bomb and nuclear power. Malley provides historical background and discusses other applications of radioactivity, from smokedetectors and luminous watch dials to cancer treatments and methods fordating archeological finds. Finally, the book examines philosophical issuesconnected with radioactivity, and relates its topics to broader issues regarding the nature of science.

Marjorie C. Malley has been involved in science and mathematics education formany years, including teaching, curriculum development, and consulting. She has aPh.D. in history with concentration in history of science.

A U G U S T 2 0 1 1Physics288 pp., 26 illus., 51⁄2 x 81⁄4

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HERE BE DRAGONSHow the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions RevolutionizedOur Views of Life and EarthDENNIS McCARTHY

Why do we find polar bears only in the Arctic and penguins only inthe Antarctic? Why are marsupials found only in Australia and

South America? In a book that Science News called “fascinating and revelatory,” Dennis McCarthy tells a story that encompasses two great,insightful theories that together explain the strange patterns of life acrossthe world—evolution and plate tectonics. We find animals and plantswhere we do because, over time, the continents have moved, separatingand uniting in a long, slow dance; because sea levels have risen, cuttingoff one bit of land from another; because new and barren volcanicislands have risen up from the sea; and because animals and plants varygreatly in their ability to travel, and separation causes the formation ofnew species. This is the story of how life has responded to, and has inturn altered, the ever-changing Earth. And it includes many fascinatingtales—of pygmy mammoths and elephant birds and of radical ideas bybold young scientists.

Denis McCarthy is a researcher at the Museum of Natural History at Buffalo.

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THE SPIRITUAL-INDUSTRIALCOMPLEXAmerica’s Religious Battle against Communism in the Early Cold WarJONATHAN P. HERZOG

In his farewell address, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation ofthe perils of the military-industrial complex, but Eisenhower had

spent his presidency contributing to another, lesser known, Cold Warcollaboration: the spiritual-industrial complex. This fascinating volumeargues that American leaders in the early Cold War considered the conflict to be profoundly religious, that they saw Communism not asgodless but as a religion fighting faith with faith. As a result, they deliberately used religious beliefs and institutions as part of the plan todefeat the Soviet enemy. Jonathan Herzog offers an illuminating accountof the spiritual-industrial complex, chronicling the rhetoric, programs,and policies that became its hallmarks. Herzog shows how these effortsplayed out in areas of American life both predictable and unexpected—from pulpits and presidential appeals to national faith drives, militarytraining barracks, public school classrooms, and Hollywood epics.Finally, he reveals that if the spiritual-industrial complex faded in the1960s, its echoes could still be heard in Ronald Reagan’s 1980s.

Jonathan P. Herzog is a New Faculty Fellow at the University of Oregon.

A U G U S T 2 0 1 1American History/Religion320 pp., 15 halftones, 61⁄8 x 91⁄4

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IN THE SHADOW OF THE GENERALModern France and the Myth of De GaulleSUDHIR HAZAREESINGH

In contemporary France, Charles de Gaulle has become a figure of legend, consistently acclaimed as the nation’s pre-eminent “historical”

figure. But paradoxes abound. For one, his personal popularity sits oddlywith his social origins and professional background. Neither the nobility, nor the Catholic Church, nor the Army is particularly well-regarded in France today, as they are seen to represent antiquatedtraditions and values. So why, then, do the French nonetheless identifywith, celebrate, and even revere this austere and devout nobleman, whoremained closely wedded to military values throughout his life? In theShadow of the General resolves this mystery and explains how de Gaullehas come to occupy such a privileged position in the French imagination. Sudhir Hazareesingh’s story of how an individual life wastransformed into national myth also tells a great deal about the Frenchcollective self in the twenty-first century: its fractured memory, its aspirations to greatness, and its manifold anxieties. Indeed, alongside thetale of de Gaulle’s legacy, the author unfolds a much broader narrative:the story of modern France.

Sudhir Hazareesingh is Fellow of Politics at Balliol College, Oxford University,and Fellow of the British Academy.

J U N E 2 0 1 1World History288 pp., 61⁄8 x 91⁄4

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An exhilarating political thriller that will mesmerizereaders with its likable characters, unforgettabledialogue, and riveting plot

REMOTE CONTROLKoTaRo IsaKaTranslated by sTEPhEn snYdER

Masaharu aoyagi, a former delivery-truck driver in the city ofsendai, is unemployed. Two years ago he achieved brief notoriety

for rescuing a local actress from a robbery attempt while making a deliv-ery to her apartment. now he is back in the spotlight—this time as themain suspect in the assassination of a newly elected prime minster whohad come to sendai for a hometown victory parade.

set in a near-future Japan modeled on the United states, RemoteControl follows aoyagi on a forty-eight-hour chase, in a dramaticretelling of the Kennedy killing with aoyagi in the role of a framed Leeharvey oswald. a massive manhunt is underway. as aoyagi runs, hemust negotiate trigger-happy law enforcement and security Pods set upthroughout the city to monitor cell-phone and email transmissions andkeep a photo record of street traffic. Can he discover why he has beenset up and who is responsible? Can he find the real assassin and prove tothe world his innocence—amidst media pronouncements of his guilt—before the conspirators take him out?

Isaka’s style and worldview are such that he is often compared toharuki Murakami; but he defies an easy label as a writer, with a voice, asense of humor, and an imagination that are truly unique. now, withthis excellent translation by stephen snyder, readers everywhere canenjoy one of Japan’s finest literary talents.

• Winner of the Shugoro Yamamoto Prize andthe Japan Booksellers’ Prize

• No. 1 in Japan’s 2009 “This Mystery is Amazing!” rankings

M A R C H 2 0 1 1Mysteries

344 pp., 6 x 9

978-4-7700-3108-2$24.95(02), hardback

Kotaro Isaka graduated from Tohoku University, school of Law. Formerly a systemsengineer, he debuted as a writer with Audubon’s Prayer. his novels and short-storycollections have been nominated for the naoki Prize—Japan’s most prestigious awardfor popular fiction—and many have been made into movies, including RemoteControl, which was released in 2010 under the book’s original title, Golden Slumber.Stephen Snyder is the acclaimed translator of natsuo Kirino’s Out, Ryu Murakami’sCoin Locker Babies, and Yoko ogawa’s The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and theProfessor, and Hotel Iris. he teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College inVermont.

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A collection of thrilling samurai tales tracing the historyof seppuku from ancient times to the twentieth century

SEPPUKUA History of Samurai SuicideandREW RanKIn

The history of seppuku—Japanese ritual suicide by cutting the stom-ach, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri—spans a millennium, and

came to be favored by samurai as an honorable form of death. here, forthe first time in English, is a book that charts the history of seppukufrom ancient times to the twentieth century through a collection ofswashbuckling tales from history and literature. author andrew Rankintakes us from the first recorded incident of seppuku, by the goddessaomi in the eighth century, through the “golden age” of seppuku in thesixteenth century that includes the suicides of shibata Katsuie, sen noRikyū and Toyotomi hidetsugu, up to the seppuku of General nogiMaresuke in 1912.

drawing on never-before-translated medieval war tales, samurai clandocuments, and execution handbooks, Rankin also provides a fascinat-ing look at the seppuku ritual itself, explaining the correct protocol andetiquette for seppuku, different stomach-cutting procedures, types ofswords, attire, location, even what kinds of refreshment should be servedat the seppuku ceremony. The book ends with a collection of quotationsfrom authors and commentators down through the centuries, summingup both the Japanese attitude toward seppuku and foreigners’ reactions:

“as for when to die, make sure you are one step ahead of everyoneelse. never pull back from the brink. But be aware that there are timeswhen you should die, and times when you should not. die at the rightmoment, and you will be a hero. die at the wrong moment, and you willdie like a dog.”—Izawa nagahide, The Warrior’s Code, 1725

“We all thought, ‘These guys are some kind of nutcakes.’”—JimVerdolini, Uss Randolph, describing “Kamikaze” attack of March 11, 1945

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256 pp., 10 b/w plates, 51⁄4 x 71⁄2

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Andrew Rankin is a Japan scholar studying for his Ph.d. on Yukio Mishima atCambridge University, in the U.K. he lived in Japan for twenty years andattended Tokyo University. Rankin worked as a translator at the nationalInstitute of Japanese Literature in Tokyo; his work includes Snakelust by Kenjinakagami, published by KI in 1998.

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Master chef Kikuo Shimizu shares his own experiencesand artistry to reveal the beauty, techniques, andphilosophy of traditional Tokyo-style sushi

EDOMAE SUSHIArt, Tradition, SimplicityKIKUo shIMIZUPhotographs by aKIRa saITo

“Edomae” means “in front of Edo,” the old name of Japan’s capitalcity. In nineteenth-century Edo, which was as busy and bustling

as today’s Tokyo, workers in search of quick, nutritious meals favoredsushi made from freshly-caught fish and vinegar-seasoned rice. over theyears, Edomae sushi became increasingly well-respected—no longerconsidered just inexpensive “fast” food, but, rather, a unique and high-ly-esteemed cuisine. Today, there are few written records about trueEdomae sushi, but its technique and soul have been passed down fromchef to chef, maintaining its tradition as it evolved through the decades.

now, Kikuo shimizu, a master chef and owner of Kikuyoshi, a tiny butrevered Tokyo restaurant, reveals how authentic Edomae sushi is made.

Chef shimizu introduces about thirty different varieties of fish, andthen shows the finished sushi in its ideal Edomae shape. Large photoscomplement instructive text which describes the ingredients andshimizu’s own techniques for maximizing flavor: from washing fattyfish in vinegar to enhance its fattiness, and marinating lean fish inkombu kelp to heighten its umami, to scoring the surface of a piece offish to fit along the arch of the rice nugget, forming a “single existence”from the two ingredients. he also includes some basic recipes andpreparation methods.

The essential accompaniments of sushi—wasabi, nori, and rice—are explained in detail, including how and when they are grown andharvested, and how best to prepare them for each season.

The author explores the history of Edomae sushi and writes, frompersonal experience, about the life and training of a traditional Japanesesushi artist. he shares his insights into the attitude and philosophy ofEdomae sushi, a tradition based on simplicity, beauty, and excellence.

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Kikuo Shimizu started making sushi at the age of sixteen and has been creatingtraditional-style sushi for fifty-six years. after a brief apprenticeship, he beganworking in the fashionable Ginza district of Tokyo under his mentor, shigezoFujimoto, the legendary “sushi emperor.” In 1971, he opened his own restaurant inthe city’s akasaka neighborhood. shimizu is famous for shunning media attention;until this book, the only way to experience his sushi was to try to get a reservationat his nine-seat counter.

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The manga edition of a reader favorite—a poignant,hard-hitting, real-life story of struggle and redemption

YAKUZA MOONThe True Story of a Gangster’s DaughterThe Manga EditionshoKo TEndoadapted by sEan MIChaEL WILsonIllustrated by MIChIRU MoRIKaWa

In this lively and inspiring adaptation by a rising star in the manga world,and with illustrations by a leading artist, shoko Tendo’s powerful story

has been recreated. Yakuza Moon is a heartrending and eye-openingaccount of her experiences growing up in Japan’s gangster society.

Born into the family of a wealthy yakuza boss, shoko Tendo lived herearly years in luxury. But labeled “the yakuza kid,” she was the victimboth of bullying and discrimination from teachers and classmates atschool, and of her father’s drunken rages at home. Then the family fellinto debt, and Tendo fell in with the wrong crowd. By the age of fifteenshe was a gang member; by the age of eighteen, a drug addict; and in hertwenties, a willing participant in a series of abusive and violent relation-ships with men.

Tendo sank lower and lower. after the death of her parents and herown suicide attempt, she began a tortuous, soul-searching reevaluationof the road she had taken. an unconventional act of empowerment (get-ting tattooed from the base of her neck to the tips of her toes) finallyhelped her take control of her life, leading to redemption and happiness.

already an international success and translated into fourteen lan-guages, Tendo’s story is sure to appeal to many new fans in this out-standing graphic version.

J U LY 2 0 1 1Manga

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978-4-7700-3146-4$15.95(03), paperback

Yakuza Moon is Shoko Tendo‘s first book. she lives in Tokyo with her youngdaughter and works as a freelance writer.Sean Michael Wilson has written a number of comic books and manga, includingKI’s Hagakure. he is also the editor of the groundbreaking collection AX:Alternative Manga.Michiru Morikawa, an artist and illustrator, won the prestigious InternationalManga and anime award in the U.K., and the prize for Best new Manga artistfrom Kodansha in Tokyo.

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Simple, healthy, and delicious vegetable sushi fromJapan’s most popular vegetarian blogger

THE VEGETABLE SUSHICOOKBOOKIZUMI shoJIPhotographs by noRIKo YaMaGUChI

The Vegetable Sushi Cookbook is the brainchild of Izumi shoji, ahugely popular blogger in Japan, who shares her expertise in turn-

ing a wide variety of vegetables into delicious and healthy sushi meals.Each recipe has been chosen for its nutritious ingredients and delightfultaste, and is easy to make with basic cooking skills and no special tools.shoji offers alternatives for any ingredients that might be difficult to findin some areas.

The author covers the entire range of sushi dishes, from nigiri-zushi(the familiar fish-atop-rice style) to maki-zushi (rolled sushi), and chi-rashi-zushi (scattered sushi), including the oshi-zushi style popular in theosaka area. also explained, in detail with many photographs, are thevarious styles of preparing the vegetables for use in sushi dishes, fromgrilling to steaming and frying. Each dish is photographed in full color.

There are additional chapters on making sushi bento, the lunch boxcraze that’s sweeping the country; and on preparing festive vegetablesushi for parties.

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Izumi Shoji is a Tokyo resident and mother, who turned her interest in vegetariancooking into a successful blog in 2007. With its daily recipes, Vege dining quicklymade an impact on the blogosphere (and now averages 60,000 unique users daily).shoji’s first book, featuring recipes from her blog, was released in March 2008, andsold over 70,000 copies in Japan. The Vegetable Sushi Cookbook is her fifteenth bookand her first in English.

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FELT FRIENDS FROM JAPAN86 Super-cute Toys and Accessories to Make YourselfnaoMI TaBaTha

Felt Friends from Japan is a treasure trove of delightful felt projects—86 in all—including not just adorable soft toys, but also coin purs-

es, bags, cell phone holders, badges, and flowers. author naomi Tabathahas gone for a retro feel, capturing the style she remembers from herchildhood in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s.

Every project features beautiful, full-color photographs, clear step-by-step instructions, and cut-out patterns; and an explanatory sectioncovers the basic stitches and techniques used. Everything is hand-sewnand requires just felt and a needle-and-thread. simple enough forcrafters ranging in age from about 10 years old to adult, the book is sureto please anyone who loves creating cute things from felt.

after working for several toy manufacturers, Naomi Tabatha began freelancingas a 3d figure illustrator. her original stuffed toys have graced countless magazine,book, and Cd covers. she also creates baby goods and writes columns for Japanesewomen’s magazines. her love of making things by hand is part of her eco-friendlylifestyle.

M A R C H 2 0 1 1Crafts/Hobbies64 pp., 32 pp. in full-color, 71⁄2 x 101⁄8

978-4-7700-3141-9$14.95(03), paperback

WHAT’S WHAT IN JAPANESERESTAURANTSA Guide to Ordering, Eating, and EnjoyingThird Edition, Revised and UpdatedRoBB saTTERWhITE

In this completely revised edition of a long-time favorite, Robbsatterwhite offers readers an insider’s tour of the vibrant and con-

stantly-changing contemporary restaurant scene in Japan. Included aremany favorite features, completely updated, such as an explanation ofdifferent kinds of restaurants, how to read menus (with examples),phrases for ordering, and a glossary and food vocabulary. Many new fea-tures have been added as well: an overview of the changing restaurantscene; sections on fish, Japanese beef, and premium pork brands;expanded sections on different types of restaurants and kinds of foods;and Japanese beverages. satterwhite also explains various cooking stylesand ingredients, and offers insights into culinary traditions, history, andthe finer points of food preparation.

Robb Satterwhite is the author of three books on Japanese food. his websiteBento.com, a guide to Japanese restaurants and Japanese food, gets around onemillion page views per month (approximately 500,000 unique users). The websiteitself has over 8,000 pages and covers close to 2,000 restaurants in the Tokyo area.The website has been mentioned in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TimeMagazine, and many other publications.

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JAPANESE FOR ALL OCCASIONSMastering Speech Styles from Casual to HonorificTaEKo KaMIYa

In Japanese, register—the way you change your words depending onwho you are speaking to—plays a key role. Japanese for All Occasions

is a much-needed introduction to this bewildering aspect of the lan-guage, aimed at intermediate students and above. Through 57 dialogues,veteran teacher Taeko Kamiya shows learners how the Japanese changetheir way of speaking according to the social setting or their relationshipwith the listener, with examples ranging from casual to superpolite.Chapters are ordered by function and present three similar dialoguesthat show contrasting styles of speech. detailed notes explain the gram-mar or usage at work in the dialogues, and quizzes at the end of eachchapter allow learners to test their understanding. Best of all, the bookcomes with a free Cd containing all the dialogues, narrated by profes-sional Japanese actors.

Taeko Kamiya (1925—2005) was an internationally-known author, teacher, andphilanthropist who received Masters degrees from the University of san Franciscoin education and from Monterey Institute of International studies in linguistics.she taught Japanese for twenty-five years at the defense Language Institute inMonterey, California, before turning to writing books about the Japanese language.among her many publications are The Handbook of Japanese Verbs, The Handbookof Japanese Adjectives and Adverbs, and Japanese Sentence Patterns for EffectiveCommunication, from Kodansha International.

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A P R I L 2 0 1 1Language Learning200 pp., 51⁄4 x 71⁄2

978-4-7700-3151-8$24.00(03), paperback1 CD attached

THE NEW KIMONOFrom Vintage Style to Everyday ChicThE EdIToRs oF NANAO MaGaZInE

Recently, young women in Japan have taken to the idea of wearingkimono as everyday fashion, delighting in scouring secondhand

kimono stores and their mothers’ closets for vintage pieces to bring theirown wardrobes up to date. a testament to this trend is the success ofNanao, a quarterly magazine aimed at this younger market, and filledwith stylish spreads and tips on dressing, finding great but inexpensivepieces, and customizing, accessorizing, and caring for these traditionalgarments. The New Kimono presents, in book form, a selection of thebest articles from Nanao. an appendix provides clear, step-by-step guide-lines for putting on kimono, kimono underwear, yukata, and obi. aglossary of kimono terms and a shop guide is also included. Beautifulphotographs combine with practical hints, making this book indispens-able for kimono lovers, as well as anyone with an interest in fashion,Japanese popular culture, or textiles and design.

Nanao Magazine is a quarterly publication, established in 2004, with a circulation of50,000. In addition to the four yearly issues, there are two special extra issues a year.

M AY 2 0 1 1Fashion128 pp., 96 pp. in full-color, 71⁄2 x 97⁄8

978-4-7700-3148-8$24.95(03), paperback

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FOUR SEASONS OF MT. FUJIEdited by Kodansha InTERnaTIonaLPhotographs by YUKIo ohYaMa andshIGEKI YaMashITa

Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan, adored as a religious object,and loved by people in Japan from ancient days for its ever-chang-

ing appearance, transformed from day to night and season to season, yetalways breathtaking. This book features forty images of the mountaintaken by two professional photographers who have devoted many years tocapturing its beauty on film. In addition to the photographs, there areimages of Mt. Fuji in art and crafts, which emphasize the importance ofthe mountain to many aspects of Japanese culture. Back matter includes ahistory of Mt. Fuji, popular climbing routes to the top, spots offering thebest views, and maps for locating accommodations.

Yukio Ohyama began his professional career in 1972 by specializing in photograph-ing steam locomotives. In 1976, he began taking photos of Mt. Fuji; and in 1990,he built his own domed house at the foot of the mountain. he is considered oneof Japan’s foremost photographers of Mt. Fuji. Shigeki Yamashita established apublic relations photo agency in 1987. In 1996, he began focusing on nature andscenery. In the same year, he spent 100 days camping out in a car and shooting thedifferent faces of Mt. Fuji.

M AY 2 0 1 1Travel104 pp., 96 pp. in full-color, 71⁄2 x 97⁄8

978-4-7700-3143-3$16.00(03), paperback

SHINTO SHRINESA Guide to the Sacred Sites of Japan’s Ancient ReligionJosEPh CaLIWith John doUGILL

With over 125 black-and-white photos, fifty illustrations, and maps,this guidebook showcases sixty-six major shinto shrines, many of

which are World heritage sites or national Treasures.The authors introduce fascinating aspects of this ancient shamanistic

religion: the history of shintoism and its fundamental tenets; its rela-tionship to Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and other Eastern beliefsystems; customs and rites; pilgrimages and recommended routes; andtypes of festivals. The Guide portion of the book is organized by regionof the country. For each shrine, there is a comprehensive entry high-lighting important spiritual features, physical features (architecture,design, and art), associated festivals, and enshrined gods. The authorsalso note the prayers offered, and the best times for travelers to visit.

a native new Yorker, Joseph Cali has lived in Japan for over 30 years. he haswritten several books, including The New Zen Garden, also from KodanshaInternational. By day, Cali works as a graphic designer, illustrator, and interiordesigner. John Dougill is a professor of cultural studies at Ryukoku University inKyoto. he is the author of Kyoto: A Cultural History (2006) and the editor of thejournal Japanese Religions. he spent his most recent sabbatical studying the roots ofshintoism, and serves on a committee looking to build a shinto shrine in theUnited Kingdom.

J U N E 2 0 1 1Travel240 pp., 125 b/w photos, 50 illus., maps,glossary, index, 51⁄4 x 71⁄2

978-4-7700-3139-6$22.00(03), paperback

THE ESSENCE OF BUDOThe Secret Teachings of the GrandmasterMasaaKI haTsUMI

Budo is the spiritual way of the martial arts that all practitioners mustfollow if they are to be true martial artists. In this book, Masaaki

hatsumi explores the very essence of Budo, and demonstrates an arrayof important techniques relating to this essence, explaining how Budotranscends any one combat technique and is at the core of all the manymartial arts developed in Japan. The author also reveals secret techniquesand the hidden principles of the martial arts, and elucidates the wordsof his master, Toshitsugu Takamatsu, on Budo and life.

after progressing through various martial arts, Masaaki Hatsumi became the 34thGrandmaster of Togakure-ryū ninjutsu and eight other arts, which he unified intothe Bujinkan system. hatsumi has taught thousands of students and instructed lawenforcement agencies all over the world, receiving numerous accolades from politi-cians and spiritual leaders of many nationalities. he is also the author of numerousbooks and dVds on ninjutsu and budo.

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978-4-7700-3107-5$35.00(02), hardback

AIKIDOMy Spiritual JourneyGoZo shIodaafterword by YasUhIsa shIoda

In this first full autobiographical work, legendary aikido grandmasterGozo shiodo tells of his exciting life. Born in Tokyo in 1915, shioda

excelled as a student of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido. afterattaining a ninth-rank black belt, he founded the Yoshinkan school ofaikido; and in 1988, shioda was awarded the title of aikido Master bythe International Martial arts Federation. over the course of his dis-tinguished career, he was chief instructor for the Tokyo MetropolitanPolice, the air self-defense Force, the Japanese national Railways, and anumber of leading Japanese universities. In Aikido: My Spiritual Journey,shioda relates moving, personal anecdotes about Ueshiba, and impartswhat he learned from his mentor. he also offers a concise overview ofthe key elements of aikido.

Gozo Shioda died in 1994.Yasuhisa Shioda trained under his father, and hasworked to promote aikido, teaching university students, police, and businessgroups. In 1984, he went to Great Britain, where he taught aikido for three years,laying a foundation for the development of aikido in that country. In 2007,he became a grandmaster and the president of Yoshinkan aikido.

J U LY 2 0 1 1Martial Arts288 pp., 20 b/w photos, 6 x 9

978-4-7700-3149-5$35.00(02), hardback

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ALL THE EMPEROR’S MENKurosawa’s Pearl HarborhIRoshI TasoGaWa

In april 1967, with much fanfare, 20th Century Fox and KurosawaProductions announced that the legendary akira Kurosawa would be

the director and script editor for the Japanese sequences of Tora, Tora,Tora!, a movie about Japan’s attack on Pearl harbor. In december 1968,three weeks into filming, Kurosawa was dismissed. What is the truthbehind this humiliating dismissal— and what would Kurosawa’s versionof the film have been? These are the questions that journalist hiroshiTasogawa addresses in All the Emperor’s Men.

after careful research, Tasogawa concluded that the incident was notthe result of a conspiracy or malice on the part of hollywood, as hasbeen suggested. In fact, Kurosawa himself was, in no small part, respon-sible for his own fate, misunderstanding both the studio’s concept for themovie and his own role in the production.

Hiroshi Tasogawa was a reporter for nhK, Japan’s public broadcastingcorporation. he was also an associated Press reporter and a professor at TokaiUniversity. The Japanese edition of All the Emperor’s Men received four awards.

J U N E 2 0 1 1Film Studies384 pp., b/w photos, 6 x 9

978-4-7700-3138-9$26.95(02), hardback

FURNITURE WITH SOULMaster Woodworkers and Their CraftdaVId saVaGE

In Furniture with Soul, author david savage explores the philosophies,careers, and pivotal moments of struggle and inspiration for today’s

most talented and influential woodworkers, including John Cederquist,Tom hucker, Michael hurwitz, Peter danko, Judy Kensley McKie, andothers. he traveled throughout the U.s. and Britain to interview theserenowned artists. In the book, he reveals their thinking, creativeprocesses, and rise to prominence. he takes the reader into their work-shops and their hearts as he seeks to illuminate the soul of the artists’work, and the influences and experiences that shaped them.

a designer and furniture maker for over 35 years, David Savage is one the world’smost highly regarded furniture makers. his work is sought after by collectors andlovers of handcrafts throughout the world. he has published over fifty articles foramerican, British, and European magazines. savage will be hosting a 6-part BBCseries on woodworking in early 2011.

J U LY 2 0 1 1Art232 pp., 96 pp. in full-color, b/w photos,sketches, 9 x 12

978-4-7700-3121-1$45.00(02), hardback

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An indispensable companion to the popular Japanese inMangaLand series

JAPANESE IN MANGALANDWorkbook 2MaRC BERnaBEart by KEn nIIMURa

The Japanese in MangaLand series has been embraced by Japaneseteachers and learners everywhere for its innovative and entertaining

blend of solid language instruction and pop culture. now comes theJapanese in MangaLand Workbook 2, the perfect way for students whohave moved beyond the basics to practice and assimilate what they’velearned in the textbooks.

designed to complement the second volume in the series, the exer-cises in this Workbook are more challenging than those in Workbook 1.Each section offers dozens of exercises and activities covering readingcomprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and kanji. In addition, the bookgives students practice writing hiragana, katakana, and kanji, and opti-mizes the vocabulary and grammar that was taught in the texts.

a special feature is the 36-page manga story created especially forthis volume. students can read and enjoy the manga after studying eachlesson. and to further enhance the authenticity of the learning experi-ence, the Workbook is read the “Japanese way”—from back to front andfrom right to left.

A U G U S T 2 0 1 1Language Learning

96 pp., all b/w, 36-page manga insert,63⁄4 x 101⁄2

978-4-88996-270-3$17.00(03), paperbackJapanese in MangaLand Series

Marc Bernabe is a Japanese-spanish/Catalan translator and interpreter, workingmainly on manga and anime translations. he also specializes in language andJapanese culture didactics for foreigners. he combines his professional andacademic activities with the Internet web page nipoweb.com, of which he isfounder, co-webmaster, and regular contributor. In addition to the Japanese inMangaLand series, Bernabe’s other published works include the spanish adaptationof the Remembering the Kanji series, and other books on Japan and the Japaneselanguage aimed at the spanish-speaking market.Ken Niimura, who is of Japanese and spanish origins, has published his worksin several books, magazines, and fanzines, where he has collaborated on comics,illustrations, articles, and interviews. Winner of more than thirty prizes, he hashad numerous exhibitions of his work in Madrid.

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For review copies or information on Fordham titles, contact Kate O’Brien-Nicholsonat (718) 817-4782 or email [email protected]

Oxford University Press is pleased to announce that, as ofJanuary 1, 2011, it will distribute Fordham University Press print

and electronic titles in the United States and Canada.

Fordham University Press celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007. The Press publishes booksprimarily in the humanities and social sciences, particularly in the fields of anthropology, classics,communications, history, law, philosophy, political science, religion, and sociology, as well asliterature and the fine arts. Additionally, the Press has a strong list of books focusing on the met-ropolitan New York region, and has recently announced a new imprint—Empire State Editions.

OUP is excited to have a university press of Fordham’s caliber become a part of its family ofdistributed presses. Fordham’s commitment to the dissemination of scholarship is a perfect fitwith Oxford’s own mission.

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AS BAD AS THEY SAY?Three Decades of Teaching in the BronxJANET GROSSBACH MAYER

Rundown vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucraticsystems. Children from broken homes and declining communities.

How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive, butalso come to thrive? It can happen and As Bad as They Say? tells theheroic stories of Janet Mayer’s students during her 33-year tenure as aBronx high school teacher.

Mayer walks the reader through the decrepit school building,describing in graphic detail the deplorable physical conditions thatstudents and faculty navigate daily. Then, in eight chapters, we meeteight amazing young people, a small sample of the more than 14,000students the writer has felt honored to teach. Mayer describes her ownBronx roots and the powerful influences that made her such a deter-mined teacher. Finally, the veteran teacher sounds the alarm to stop thecorruption and degradation of public education in the guise of what iseuphemistically labeled “reforms” (No Child Left Behind and Race tothe Top). She also expresses optimism that public education and ourdemocracy can still be saved.

Janet Grossbach Mayer has just completed her 50th year as an award-winninghigh school teacher of English and reading.

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A co-publication with the Bronx Museum of the Artsfeaturing a series of first-hand accounts of thecontemporary art world by noted artists, curators,critics, collectors, and other art professionals

TAKING AIM!The Business of Being an Artist TodayEdited by MARYSOL NIEVES

Taking AIM! The Business of Being an Artist Today is a practical,affordable resource guide filled with invaluable advice for the

emerging artist. The book is specially designed to aid visual artists infurthering their careers through unfiltered information about the busi-ness practices and idiosyncrasies of the contemporary art world.It demystifies often daunting and opaque practices through first-handtestimonials, interviews, and commentary from leading artists, curators,gallerists, collectors, critics, art consultants, arts administrators, art fairdirectors, auction house experts, and other art world luminaries.

Published in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Artist in theMarketplace (AIM)—the pioneering career development program at theBronx Museum of the Arts—Taking AIM! The Business of Being an ArtistToday mirrors the structure and topics featured in the AIM program’sweekly workshops and discussions. Each chapter focuses on the specificperspective of an “art world insider”—from the artist to the public artprogram director to the blogger. Multiple viewpoints from a range ofart professionals provide emerging artists with candid, uncensoredinformation and tools to help them better understand this complex fieldand develop strategies for building and sustaining successful careers asprofessional artists.

The book ends with an annotated chronology of the past threedecades in the contemporary art field and a bibliography of publications,magazine articles, online sources, funding sources, residency programs,and other useful information for emerging artists.Contributors include Sergio Bessa, director of programs, Bronx

Museum of the Arts; Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, curator, El Museo delBarrio; Brian Sholis, arts writer and editor; Lydia Yee, curator,Barbican Gallery; Anton Vidokle, artist and entrepreneur; RaphaelRubinstein, arts writer and University of Houston School of Art pro-fessor; Gabriela Palmieri, Vice President, Sotheby’s; Simon Watson,curator, entrepreneur, and co-founder/partner Scenic; former AIMartists; Sara Reisman, Director, Percent for Art Program; MelissaRachleff, Parsons School of Design, Program Officer at the NewYork State Council on the Arts; Kianga Ellis, Founder of Avail Art,L.L.C., and many others.

J U N E 2 0 1 1Art/Business

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Marysol Nieves is a New York–based independent curator and art consultant withover twenty years of museum and corporate art experience, specializing in contem-porary and Latin American art.

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The first study of the Colored Orphan Asylum—anagency established by white women in New York Cityduring a time of extreme racial hostilities

ANGELS OF MERCYWhite Women and the History of New York’sColored Orphan AsylumWILLIAM SERAILE

William Seraile uncovers the history of the Colored OrphanAsylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation’s first

orphanage for African American children. It is a remarkable institutionthat is still in the forefront aiding children. Although it is no longer anorphanage, in its current incarnation as Harlem-Dowling West SideCenter for Children and Family Services it maintains the principles ofthe women who organized it nearly 200 years ago.

The agency weathered three wars, two major financial panics, a dev-astating fire during the 1863 Draft Riots, several epidemics, waves ofracial prejudice, and severe financial difficulties to care for orphaned,neglected, and delinquent children. Eventually financial support wouldcome from some of New York’s finest families, including the Jays,Murrays, Roosevelts, Macys, and Astors.

While the white female managers and their male advisers were ded-icated to uplifting these black children, the evangelical, mainly Quakerfounding managers also exhibited the extreme paternalistic viewsendemic at the time, accepting the advice or support of the AfricanAmerican community only grudgingly. It was frank criticism in 1913from W. E. B. Du Bois that highlighted the conflict between theorphanage and the community it served, and it wasn’t until 1939 thatthey hired the first black trustee.

Over fifteen thousand children were raised in the orphanage, andthroughout its history, letters and visits have revealed that hundreds if notthousands of “old boys and girls” looked back with admiration and respectat the home that nurtured them throughout their formative years.

Weaving together African American history with a unique history ofNew York City, this is not only a painstaking study of a previouslyunsung institution of black history but a unique window onto complexracial dynamics during a period when many failed to recognize equalityamong all citizens as a worthy purpose.

J U N E 2 0 1 1New York/African American Studies

220 pp., 12 b/w illus., 6 x 9

978-0-8232-3419-6$27.95(02), hardback

William Seraile is a professor emeritus at Lehman College, City University ofNew York, where he taught African American history for thirty-six years.His most recent books are New York’s Black Regiments During the Civil War (2001)and Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings of John Edward Bruce (2003).

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THE RAT THAT GOT AWAYA Bronx MemoirALLEN JONES with MARK NAISON

“The memoir paints an earthy picture of the neighborhood in the1950s, when the projects were home to working-class black and

Latino families who pushed their children to excel, through the1970s.”—The New York Times

“This is a startling book. During the 1960s, thousands of young menin the South Bronx were caught up in an increasingly virulent drug epi-demic that ruined many lives and communities. This book is the story ofone man, Allen Jones, who escaped, or ‘got away,’ from this path ofdestruction. Jones, with the help of adults in the African-American com-munity, used his skills as a basketball player to escape the streets of theBronx, go on to prep school and college, and then become a pro inEurope. The most compelling parts of the book are Jones’s tales abouthow the heroin trade, and its use, got such an insidious hold on so manypeople, promising them wealth and/or a feeling of power, but often end-ing in death. But the most amazing story is how family and communitysaved his life.”—Peter Derrick, Bronx County Historical Society

Allen Jones, born in the Bronx, is a manager for foreign currency exchange atDexia Banque Internationale at Luxembourg.Mark Naison is Professor of AfricanAmerican Studies and History at Fordham University, where he also directs theBronx African American History Project. He is the author of three books, includingWhite Boy: A Memoir.

A P R I L 2 0 1 1224 pp., 11 b/w illus., 6 x 9

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FIFTH AVENUE FAMOUSThe Extraordinary Story of Musicat St. Patrick’s CathedralSALVATORE BASILEForeword by MOST REVEREND TIMOTHY M.DOLAN, ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK288 pages, 36 b/w illustrations978-0-8232-3187-4, Cloth, $29.95

THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATIONCrime and Punishment, Myth and MemoryA Lincoln Forum BookEdited by HAROLD HOLZER,CRAIG L. SYMONDS, andFRANK J. WILLIAMS256 pages, 56 b/w illustrations978-0-8232-3226-0, Cloth, $27.95The North’s Civil War

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THINKING IN DARK TIMESHannah Arendt on Ethics and PoliticsEdited by ROGER BERKOWITZ,JEFFREY KATZ, and THOMAS KEENAN288 pages, 23 b/w illustrations978-0-8232-3076-1, Paper, $28.00978-0-8232-3075-4, Cloth, $75.00

AAarts, Bas, 36Abraham Lincoln and the Second

American Revolution, 31Accidental Guerrilla, The, 44Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,

The, 76Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The, 76After Prostate Cancer, 55Age of Extremes, An, 77Aikido, 128Alcott, Louisa May, 76All the Emperor’s Men, 129All the People, 77Alpert, Rebecca T., 113America Walks into a Bar, 22America’s Church, 106American Immigration: VSI, 63Anderson, Terry, 25Angels of Mercy, 134Anne of Avonlea, 76Anne of Green Gables, 76Aristotle, 71Art and Homosexuality, 92Artful Universe Expanded, The, 95As Bad as They Say?, 132Atkins, Peter, 11Augustine, Saint, 71Austen, Jane, 71, 76

BBaggott, Jim, 4Ball, Philip, 108Barash, David P., 18Barbarians and Brothers, 88Barney, William L., 56Barrow, John, 95Battle Cry of Freedom, 31Baum, L. Frank, 76Beaumont, Daniel, 26Beautiful Invisible, The, 90Beauty Bias, The, 114Beauty: VSI, 61

Beezley, William H., 116Beneath the American Renaissance,

112Bernabe, Marc, 130Bible Now, The, 16Binmore, Ken, 58Birth of Modern Politics, The, 87Bismarck, 5Black Beauty, 76Boritt, Gabor S., 32Branches, 108Breeding, 99Bronner, Stephen Eric, 59Brown, Jonathan A.C., 63Bruera, Eduardo, 104Burgess, Lauren Cook, 32Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 69,

76Burns, Elizabeth, 104Bush’s Wars, 25Butt, John, 37Byman, Daniel, 14

CCali, Joseph, 127Cancer: VSI, 62Canterbury Tales, The, 71Carroll, Stuart, 99Carwardine, Richard, 98Castells, Manuel, 93CDC Health Information for

International Travel 2012, 103Chadwick, Henry, 71Chandler, Daniel, 72Changed for Good, 102Chaucer, Geoffrey, 71Chazin-Bennahum, Judith, 112Christopher, Emma, 27Clark, Gillian, 60Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty, 86Communication Power, 93Concise Oxford Dictionary of

Quotations, 73

Concise Oxford English Dictionary,34

Conscience: VSI, 65Courant, Richard, 58Creating Their Own Image, 86Critical Theory, 59Cropper, William H., 58Crossroads of Freedom, 31Cyprus Problem, The, 52

DDaddis, Gregory A., 94Dance of Air and Sea, The, 6Davies, Owen, 64Davies, Sharon, 91Dawkins, Richard, 58Death or Liberty, 85Deaths of Others, The, 24Defoe, Daniel, 67Dehaene, Stanislas, 97Desjardin, Thomas A., 31Dickens, Charles, 76Dictionary of Marketing, A, 73Dictionary of Media and

Communication, A, 72Dillinger’s Wild Ride, 54Dividing the Spoils, 8Dogs of War, The, 10Doyle, Arthur Conan, 76Doyle, Charles, 73Dracula, 67Drawn with the Sword, 31Draznin, Boris, 104Drugs and Drug Policy, 53Dudden, Faye E., 110Durrell, Martin, 38

EEarly Music: VSI, 61Economics of Good and Evil, 7Edomae Sushi, 122Egerton, Douglas R., 85

Emperor’s New Mind, The, 58Esposito, John L., 23Essence of Budo, The, 128Eustace Diamonds, The, 70Except When I Write, 109Executive Unbound, The, 80Exercise for Mood and Anxiety, 57Extended Phenotype, The, 58

FFall of the Faculty, The, 115Farmer, David, 72Farrington, Lisa E., 86Felt Friends from Japan, 125Fighting Chance, 110First Americans, The, 77Fischhoff, Baruch, 66Flow, 108For Cause and Comrades, 31Forum and the Tower, The, 30Foster, Roy, 101Four Seasons of Mt. Fuji, 127Frankenstein, 71, 76Freehling, William W., 31Friction, 84Friedman, Richard Elliott, 16From Battlefields Rising, 32From Colonies to Country, 77From Colony to Superpower, 40Fuller, Randall, 32Furniture with Soul, 129

GGame Theory: VSI, 58Gardiner, Stephen M., 94Garner’s Dictionary of Legal

Usage, 107Garner, Bryan, 107Gaskell, Elizabeth, 70Genius for Deception, A, 81Genius: VSI, 59George, Alexander, 42

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Gerber, David A., 63Gerson, Kathleen, 88Gettysburg Nobody Knows, The, 32Ginsberg, Benjamin, 115Gioia, Ted, 51Glendon, Mary Ann, 30Global Lincoln, The, 98Gorn, Elliott J., 54Gospels, The, 68Grahame, Kenneth, 76Grand Design, The, 32Great Physicists, 58Guberman, Ross, 83Guelzo, Allen C., 32

HHabits of Change, 105Hakim, Joy, 77Haleem, M. A. S. Abdel, 71Hammer’s German Grammar and

Usage, 38Handbook for Mortals, 50Hatch, Mary Jo, 62Hatsumi, Masaaki, 128Hazareesingh, Sudhir, 118Heaven in the American

Imagination, 102Heaven on Earth, 106Heidi, 76Hemphill, C. Dallett, 110Here Be Dragons, 117Herodotus, 71Herodotus: VSI, 65Herring, George C., 40Herzog, Jonathan P., 118High Price, A, 14Histories, The, 71History of Jazz, The, 51Hodgson Burnett, Frances, 76Horace, 69Horton, James Oliver, 32How Literature Works, 90Humanism: VSI, 60

IIn the Shadow of the General, 118Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn,

The, 82Irvin, Benjamin H., 86Irvine, Maxwell, 64Isaka, Kotaro, 120

JJacobs, Alan, 19James, Nick, 62Japanese for All Occasions, 126Japanese in MangaLand, 130Johnson, Julian, 96Jones, Allen, 135Jungle Book, The, 76

KKamiya, Taeko, 126Kay, William K., 60Kelly, Thomas Forrest, 61Ker-Lindsay, James, 52Kidnapped, 76Kilcullen, David, 44Kipling, Rudyard, 76Kleiman, Mark A.R., 53Klein, Maury, 100Kodansha International, 127Krystal, Arthur, 109Kurzman, Charles, 21

LLaird, Martin, 29Landes, Richard, 106Lane, Belden C., 96Lark Rise to Candleford, 98Last Indian War, The, 43Late Antiquity: VSI, 60Law, Stephen, 60Lee, Wayne E., 88

Leopold, Aldo, 58Liberty for All?, 77Lincoln and His Admirals, 32Lincoln: VSI, 32Little Women, 76Living with Bipolar Disorder, 46Lockwood, John, 2Lodge, Tom, 20Lynn, Joanne, 50

MMaking Thirteen Colonies, 77Malley, Marjorie, 117Martinez, Jenny S., 116Martyrs and Murderers, 99Mayer, Janet, 132McCarthy, Dennis, 117McCauley, Clark, 84McPherson, James M., 31Melman, Arnold, 55Merciless Place, A, 27Mexico in World History, 116Missing Martyrs, The, 21Moll Flanders, 67Montgomery, L. M., 76Morikawa, Michiru, 123Muhammad: VSI, 63

NNaked City, 89Nanao Magazine, 126Nazis on the Run, 13New Atlantis, 17New Kimono, The, 126New Nation, The, 77New Reference Grammar of

Modern Spanish, A, 37Nicomachean Ethics, The, 71Nieves, Marysol, 133Niimura, Ken, 130No Sure Victory, 94North American Idea, The, 28

Nuclear Power: VSI, 64Number Sense, The, 97

OOhyama, Yukio, 127Oliver Twist, 76On Being, 11Organizations: VSI, 62Osman, Suleiman, 82Otto, Michael, 46, 57Out of Left Field, 113Owens, W.R., 68Oxford American Handbooks of

Medicine, 104Oxford Dictionaries, 34Oxford Dictionary of Saints, The,

72Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil

War, The, 56Oxford Modern English Grammar,

36Oxford Shakespeare, The, 71

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